Storm Reid landed a breakthrough role when director Ava DuVernay cast the young actress in her 2018 screen adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 book, A Wrinkle in Time.
However, Reid soon found herself engulfed in controversy when some fans of the beloved novel balked at a Black actress playing a character who was depicted as white in the book. “Some people had problems with me playing Meg because they’d loved her as a Caucasian girl for so long,” she told InStyle.
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