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“There was one time I went for a meeting for this big movie and I was up for a character who wasn’t written as black. The character was a college graduate and the studio head, a woman, said, ‘How can we make this role more black if we are going to have you in the film?’ And I said, ‘Well, I think as it’s written it’s fine…’ And she said, ‘Yeah, I know, but she is a graduate, she has been to university.’ So I said, ‘I’ve been to university.’ And then it was, ‘Yeah, but you’re different.’”

-Thandie Newton on the racists who run Hollywood