EIn the Gugu Mbatha-Raw career, an older white actress advised her name to something easier to pronounce. I rejected – a strong choice for a young actor. “I don’t think it’s Which – which Strong, “MBATHA-RAW. She loves her name. Besides, this means” our pride “in Zulu. For a change that will be the opposite of its meaning. “
MBATHA-RAW is famous for choosing roles that combine art and social advocacy. She won prizes, was honored with MBE, and appointed Ambassador of Goodwill to the United Nations Refugee Agency. People still make their name, though. The most extreme example you remember in Norway was when it announced its host of a piece of paper. “Gucci … Matthew … Ray? I was like,” I think this is me! “
I wonder if this says something about the satisfaction of the West regarding the achievements of those who have ethnic roots elsewhere. Doesn’t Central England relate more easily with the names that reflect their own? “I don’t agree,” she says. “I think it is good to challenge people. To get out of their culture and know that this is not all.” Yes, but are they? “Well, you have to give them the opportunity.” The answer leads me to short.
We are at a farm table in West London Photography Studio. When I entered, MBATHA-RAW was wearing jewelry grains and dancing with Toto Wardi. It is here to promote the second series of surfaceApple TV for a woman who suffers from memory loss after a clear suicide attempt. “I have seen stories of other memory loss, but I always show the male protagonist, from a male point of view,” she says.
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I enjoyed being a larger part of the process, from promoting Apple to choosing the creative team and has a sound at the level of the text program. surface Investigate identity, confidence and shock. The first chain, which was appointed in San Francisco, was mysterious. The second series is held in the United Kingdom-“Darily, faster, faster and more cruel.”
It also features larger actors including Joly Richardson and Tara Fitzgerd, and MBATHA-RAW are looking forward to. Whoever works today, who is more surprising? Kate Blanchett, she says. “I love how to hold herself in the world.” Blanchett, a fellow of goodwill, respects the commission, on a large scale for its elegance and group, and the division of roles between theater and the screen. Also, “I don’t know much about her personal life, which I love.”
Mbatha-draw She publicly did not discuss her private life (it is not known if she is currently). “It is a way to get the longevity as an artist,” she explained. Its function is to take the fans on a fictional journey through a personality. The more they know the actor, their belief. “If people have a lot of ideas about your world, it reduces work,” she says. It is a craft free view. “There has been a quote from Michaella Coyle a few years ago, about how it’s okay to disappear,” she continues. “As an artist, you need to re -fill the well, you have what you say.” Remember life in front of the Internet and social media. “I am grateful that I have a perspective not only driving yourself there, simply for the sake of attending.”
Her possession is great, but it comes with a specific reserve, and it is a graceful front. I am not sure that I am allowed to see it. I wonder whether we should upset it, but it’s difficult – it’s a mixture of TEFLON from the positive La and the British directors. It maintains the gratitude magazine, which brings her together with the morning pages (a daily practice to write a conscious flow), and is given to hack “Oh my God!” Like Nid Flanders. When someone puts a dish of fresh cakes on the table in front of us, she actually says, “The Holy Muller!” Tell her that she has a girl’s energy. Well, I He was “The head of the head.” Optimism is part of everything you do. Waking up at four in the morning to photograph the site in the cold freezing requires faith with a greater goal. “You have to believe in things that you cannot see yet.”
MBATHA-RAW was born In the small town of Whitney in Oxfordshire in 1983, to a white mother, Anna, a nurse, a black father from South Africa, Patrick, a doctor. Her parents met at the Churchill Hospital, a cancer center, and was expelled when she was three years old. They remain active in her life. She says that her mother gave her her confidence and work ethics, and supported all attention, from the saxophone to ballet. She was only a child, she was already hatched to start the life of a professional artist. She says, “I had moved to London at the age of 12,” if you allow me, “she says. “
Her father, an activist who escaped from the apartheid, was talented by her political awareness. She remembers the dinner table that gave it a global perspective, and to open questions about justice and equality. “As my father always said, in South Africa, you are Messi at birth. It is not a luxury or option.” She has a family in Johannesburg. It has deepened the country’s visit as an extreme person to an understanding of the role of Britain in the history of the world. “Culturally, this is something we still get to know.”
As a teenager, the painting was her passion. During the years of YBA, she was inspired by Damian Hurst and Emine’s acute and acute photographs of Jenny Savil. But the theater finally brought it more than itself. She started attending the National Youth Music Theater and was accepted in Rada, which started two weeks after September 11.
Her name was made in 2009 production from village In front of Jude Lu, followed by the Landmark movie 2013 belle. Two years later it was nominated for Evening standard Prize for her performance in Jess Sewling play Neil JoinAbout an orange seller who rose socially to become Charles II’s mistress. I got a new level of vision from the tournament San JuniferoEmmy award -winning episode of Black mirror. In 2017, Queen MBE for Drama Services granted her.
Social change occurs gradually, but there are people and moments that lead them. belleThe 2013 movie in which MBATHA-RAW played the mixed lady of the Arthritis mixed Deedo Elizabeth Bale, was one. Based on a true story, it helped turn the assumptions that the drama looks like. without belleMaybe there was no BridgeroneIt is an offer that is attributed to a permanent effect in its manufacture, especially the employment of non -white crew members on groups. “There is a generation of contestants and assistants Bridgerone Those who come from there, move forward. “
Diversity is the cause of passionate. While its accomplishments are often placed as a success story, representation is only one side of it. “You can go,” oh [the industry has been] “This person was fixed in front of the camera,” she says. “But in fact, behind the camera is not different from it for years.” In the past or thirty years, I have noticed a positive transformation, at least in the United Kingdom. It is now using its executive role to expand the opportunity when employing crews, as a condition for sharing them. The last group that I worked on was “the most diverse in my career, and this is not by chance.”
Ask if she had suffered from the racism that arose in a small town in the eighties. She was not really aware of racism. This amazes me. “I don’t know if I live in the post -races of ignorance, or if this is just my experience,” I ignore.
When she was a little older, she learned more about her father’s experiences under the apartheid system.
Work in America in the mid -twenties was another turning point. The media there is more severe for the race, and I noticed people keen to appoint stickers, sometimes wonderfully. The early experience was JJ Abrams Secrecy In 2010, you remember that he was presented by a host, announced, “This is the first offer to include two African American clients since then Cosby offer! “The only problem is:” I am a British British, and my co -star was the Ghanaian German. “
I have since worked with the biggest names in business, including Oprah Winfrey, which was supporting belleWhich later acted in Ava Duevirnie Clash in time. The last time they met is the final of Edward Eneinfoul Vogue Magazine Cover, which has shown 40 stars including Serena Williams, Naomi Campbell and Laverne Cox, on the train line “Legendary! “It was surreal, as she says. There is no one like Jane Fonda. “
It is an unusual cover: another day, a female Sergeant pepper. “Everyone thought that Photoshopped! “I was in awe of the elderly. More women in the room, and the idea of the longevity that I aspire to.”
The longevity is difficult for anyone, and there is additional pressure on colored people. I ask about Will Smith, her co -star Concussion. She only praises his generosity, like the occasion she mentioned that she no longer has time to paint. “The next day, my trailer was filled with paints and ASSEL, in the style of the classic Will Smith.”
During the epidemic, MBATHA-RAW was imprisoned in her apartment in Los Angeles. After taking out the cabinets bored, I found the unused artistic materials that Smith gave her. I started drawing pictures of photographs, as a way to communicate with the family that was not there. “To be able to focus on someone’s face, I made me feel near it.” Drawing every day, watching the news, saw the ethnic divisions of America playing. At the most painful collective moment in 2020, pictures of George Floyd and Bruyuna Taylor were drawn, the black citizens who were killed by the police. “It has become a way to met what is going on.” She later designed the pieces to raise money for them Equal Justice Initiativeand The guarantee projectand M4BL and Black life movement is important.
Life is short, as you say and we are finished. “I hope people can appreciate what you are trying to do, but you cannot comment on it.” There is this self -statue again. It is an innate feeling, but MBATHA-RAW insists that something you have worked on over time. So what is the key to her confidence? It summarizes confidence in intuition. “If there is nothing good, I am fine to say immediately, instead of fading,” she says. “Your intestine is always trying to tell you something.”
After years of living outside a bag, I now settled in Oxfordshire. Although the settlement may be the wrong word. We will see her leading her next doctor spin off, The war between the land and the sea. It is about to fly to the Caribbean Sea area for two months to complete it InheritanceThe original sky that deals with the legacy of slavery and colonialism. It was filmed between Bristol and Jamaica, the show will address the subject of slavery compensation, and how we measure the damage of the past. “It will be a conversation. I’m excited about the conversation.” It is where you want to be, sail directly in the storms that get angry loudly. Or may you make its own weather.
How to close? Most of the time, watching natural documentary films. “Something where there is no acting,” she says while she is thinking about the call. “These fish are just the same. Just swimming in the ocean. This is comfortable for me.”
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