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Zoë Kravitzis getting real about racism in the entertainment industry.
“I’m not necessarily trying to point the finger at anyone,” Kravitz says about racial stereotyping in Hollywood. “I just want to make these writers, most of whom are probably white, aware of the things that affect me and likely affect other people as well.”
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She says scripts often only call out the ethnicity of non-white characters.
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“I’m trying to speak my mind and shift things so Hollywood can be more conscious about things. My biggest pet peeve is when I read scripts that have character descriptions like ‘Stacy, 22, perky,’ then you get four pages in and see, ‘Sarah, 22, African-American,’ which makes it clear that everyone else is white,” she says.
Kravitz has spoken about the prejudices she’s faced in the film industry over the past few years. The actress, who is biracial, says she didn’t realize it was such a big deal that her grandmother,The Jeffersonsactress Roxie Roker, was married to filmmaker Sy Kravitz, who was white, until she was older.
“It was brave of her to go there. I don’t think her intention was to shake things up,” she says. “It was actually her truth.”
source: people.com
