'When you are a marginalized person or a woman of color and/or someone who’s a part of the LGBTQ community, your acts become politicized, just by being yourself.' - AmandlaStenberg
Growing up . . . oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don’t really know who you are yet.Amandla Stenberg believes in fantasy. Growing up behind the magic curtain, on the set of, Stenberg saw, up close, the genre’s power for world-building—and got to see how those worlds were actually built.
STENBERG: I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you’re done with the job. But I think it’s also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven’t met before.
STENBERG: There are some really valid things in what Jada Pinkett Smith said. I’m really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren’t represented, that don’t have characters who look like them. And that’s one of the reasons why I intend on being a director, because I want to actually tell some of these stories.
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