00:00You must have got my note though.
00:02I put it on your truck yesterday.
00:04I now realize that my internalized prejudice
00:08was stopping me from feeling like I could play this role.
00:12When it's precisely that prejudice that I've received,
00:17it doesn't matter that it's from African-American women
00:20more than anyone else, it doesn't matter.
00:22I received prejudice.
00:24Anyone who's received depression and prejudice
00:27feels this character.
00:28I've wanted so desperately to apologize every day
00:31to darker skinned actresses, to say,
00:34I'm sorry that I'm the one chosen.
00:36My mama looks like you.
00:41It's been very painful to have women that look like my mom,
00:44feel like I'm not representing them,
00:47that I'm taking from them, taking their men,
00:49taking their work, taking their truth.
00:53But I do think that any women of color who,
00:56whether they're pale or whatever,
00:58who've managed to help other actors, you know,
01:02get into this business,
01:07we matter whenever they say that black women
01:10have watched the movie.
01:12And it's really, really, really mattered to them.
01:15I just thank God that my light skin
01:17didn't stop that from happening.
01:19I'm so that it didn't cause more pain.
01:27I'm so that it didn't cause more pain.
