I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.
At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my own experience of working and continuing to work as an out gay actor is exactly that - working as an actor and not as a movie star. I don't think the two are the same.
America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.
Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.
