00:00I'm Danielle Deadwyler and I'm a woman in Hollywood.
00:03When other women see me on screen, I hope they see their experience.
00:07I hope they see the dynamism of their experience.
00:10The challenges, the difficulties, the beauty, the confusion, the searching.
00:16I hope they see the searching. That's the realest thing.
00:19The first time I saw myself in a character was in this book titled Honey I Love.
00:26And it is this glorious children's book.
00:30And it just explores all these beautiful black girls and like how they play,
00:36how they enjoy their family, how they have all kinds of hairstyles.
00:41And I just felt like those little girls were me.
00:45The first woman to open the doors for me.
00:48It's not really a singular woman.
00:50There can't be because community is the biggest thing that I've ever had bolster.
00:55My talents, my mind, my sense of confidence.
01:00So it's a collective.
01:02There's never a singular person who's doing something for you in your life.
01:05The most difficult lesson I've learned in my career,
01:09which is I'm actually really good at it.
01:11And yet it is the thing that you're incessantly trying to employ.
01:15It's patience. Patience.
01:18And add a little grace in that thing too.
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