Rocks star Kosar Ali: ‘People can’t decide if they want black women to be their shield or their target’

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The 16-year-old college student stood out as Sumaya in the coming-of-age drama Rocks. She talks to Ellie Harrison about improvising scenes, female friendships and Muslim representation on screen

is almost exclusively the latter. The girls were given a story outline, but no dialogue. “We filmed it in chronological order so we all knew what was going to happen next,” says Ali. “When we came on set, Sarah and the writers [Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson] would give us a brief breakdown of the scene, then we would have to bounce off each other and form the words as we went along.”

 

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