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Contemporary Dance I was a dancer, and I did a TEDGlobal talk called “Embracing Otherness.” I grew up on the coast of England in the ’70s. We spoke about really painful, tough things, and he was a lovely, grumpy teddy bear.Ħ. I had the enormous honor of having him encounter me. My poor little ego got slapped about because I thought he was so wonderful. WTF With Marc Maron I wanted to be on for years and years, and he never invited me. Some of it is really good for you too much of it going to kill you.ĥ. I feel like the entertainment business is like getting your vaccination. It’s like James Baldwin said: Entertainment is a narcotic. One of the sad things about our time is that we’re all gazing at the moon, or gazing at these people who are gazing at the moon, when we shouldn’t be so distracted. I don’t think it’s healthy for one person to be so obsessed to have the spotlight on them. I’m interested in the art, commerce, media, religion, protest, personal trauma, how that’s all playing out in his work. I’m fascinated by Kanye West - Ye, as he now is. I think of people like Tommy Yorke, Billie Eilish - performers, creatives, artists who touch a nerve, almost like an acupuncture when you hit that meridian and it just taps into something. They are touching a divine - certainly not all - but they open up the landscape of their spirit, their soul. I think songwriters, singers, are shamans. Music as Protest I’m discovering myself through music at the moment in a really interesting way, and it’s kind of mirroring my experience as a woman, as a mother. That’s a Shakespearean character right there, Timothy Treadwell. If I could only talk about one, I want to talk about Werner Herzog for sure.
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And I love documentary because it asks us to really look, really see, really witness. Documentaries, Especially Werner Herzog’s I think you could put a spotlight on literally anybody and create a documentary. Every living thing is trying to move towards the sun.Ģ.
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But we are making progress because every living entity wants to heal. And people who want things to stay the way they have been, because it has benefited them to enslave Africa, to exploit India, to abuse South America - you name it, humans have done it. Critical Race Theory The academic endeavor of critical race theory is to reveal what is already happening, which is that we are progressing, we are evolving, and it’s important that we document our progress. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.ġ.
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I just don’t feel that it’s worth what I put in.” Still, she went on, “the way I’ve been treated as a woman of color being an actor, the stories that I haven’t been able to tell, the limited characters that I’ve had to frustratingly wrestle with to provide truth, the pain I’ve suffered over being treated badly in work situations, and also the sad, sad waste - because I know that there’s so much more I could have done - I’m now really tired. I’ve come to the end of it - and I feel amazing. “But after that, I don’t want to be hired as an actress anymore,” said Newton - her passions now more aligned with empowering others, writing and producing, and stepping in front of the camera only on her own terms. It’s essential that we see his ignorance, that we feel his lack when he’s so brilliant writing about the psychology of men and war and philosophy and history.” But when the Audible representatives asked whether she wanted them removed, “I said, my God, no. “I practically gag in passages where he’s talking about Negroes,” she said. Still, there were moments far less wondrous. I comment with the way I breathe and the energy I put in my body and voice as I digest the different ideas that Tolstoy puts forward, different values.” The epic undertaking “was a thrill because I’m a Black African-English woman, and I have a perspective which I invite the audiences to join me on,” said Newton, who has reclaimed the spelling of her name given at birth. Especially when it’s a literary behemoth like Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” For Thandiwe Newton, recording an audiobook isn’t merely sinking into a comfy chair in front of a mic and trying not to trip over the words.