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I feel like her role in Westworld has empowered her to be more outspoken just like Maeve realized her power. Thandiwe has been very vocal about her experience with sexual misconduct when she was younger in Hollywood. I know that she will say something profound. Thandiwe has really hit her stride and I always get excited when I see an interview from her. And that is why we have to fight to critique critical race theory because it’s inspiring so many of us artists. That is what we’re starting to see in art. That is what a reimagining of history is. And that is what critical race theory is. If you don’t deal with your trauma, it is going to bite you in the ass, because it’s going to come up in ways that you don’t understand. But if you erase history, it’s like trauma survivors not dealing with their trauma. Opposition to critical race theory is like Scientology, in that it wants to erase history. If you get rid of critical race theory, are you going to imprison the people that write Watchmen? The director of 12 Years a Slave? Lisa Joy, for writing about the reevaluation of history? Mind you, she does sci-fi, which is f-king clever, because you can’t touch sci-fi, because it’s postulating a future. and they’re trying to get rid of critical race theory! Most Americans didn’t know about the Tulsa massacre. It’s so profound that they used Tulsa as the origin story for Watchmen. You don’t kill off the first Black woman to ever have a real role in a Star Wars movie. But I remembered at the time thinking, “This is a big, big mistake” - not because of me, not because I wanted to come back. But when we came to filming, as far as I was concerned and was aware, when it came to filming that scene, it was too huge a set-piece to create, so they just had me blow up and I’m done. That’s what it originally was: that the explosion and she falls out and you don’t know where she’s gone. It’s much easier just to have me die than it is to have me fall into a vacuum of space so I can come back sometime. And it was much more just to do with the time we had to do the scenes. And, actually, in the script, she wasn’t killed. I felt disappointed by Star Wars that my character was killed. And that was why I wanted to leave the film business, because I felt like I wasn’t able to do that. To be able to use that, and literally empower this character through her truth, with everything that I’ve wanted to do with my career.
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You don’t get lower than that in the pecking order of what’s f-king important. If you want to really understand how cruel and how destructive humanity is, look at the experiences of most brown women in the world. That is what the first season of Westworld was, and in it was the liberation of a brown woman. And so, they asked me to reveal my body at a time when I wanted to retreat, I had a six-month-old baby when I started shooting Westworld.īut when they described what we were going to use it for, it was literally the whole notion of martial arts: use your enemy’s strength against them. I’ve also been physically sexually abused.
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Part of the abuse that I’d suffered in the industry was directors who lied about how my nudity was going to be used and got me naked in ways that were inappropriate. It was my husband, who said, “Oh, this sounds good,” because of the team involved. This was my moment to step away, and not in a fearful way. Happily, joyfully, like, “Oh, I don’t have to keep acting? Fine.” I love being a mother. Below are a few more highlights from Inverse: She talked about her disappointment in her Star Wars character being killed off, being manipulated into doing nude scenes, and opposition to critical race theory. Thandiwe recently spoke to Inverse Magazine. Thandiwe is starring the new psychological thriller on HBO Max, Reminiscence, also starring Hugh Jackman.
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Earlier this year she started using her full birth name, Thandiwe, and she has consistently been outspoken about sexual misconduct and racism in Hollywood. A post shared by Thandiwe Newton Newton is a force for change in this resurgence of her career.