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Thandiwe Netwon tearfully apologizes to 'darker-skinned actresses'

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Thandiwe Newton broke into tears while addressing colorism in the film industry. The 49-year-old actress recently spoke to the Associated Press about her film "God's Country," which sees her play a grieving woman who confronts a pair of hunters on her property.

Newton has received a fair amount of praise for her role, which examines, among other things, her race. "I now realize that my internalized prejudice was stopping me from feeling like I could play this role, when it's precisely that prejudice that I've received," she told the outlet. "Doesn't matter that it's from African American women more than anyone else – it doesn't matter.

I received prejudice." In fact, she said that "anyone" who has experienced prejudice could relate to her character of Sandra. "I've wanted so desperately to apologize every day to darker-skinned actresses, to say ‘I’m sorry that I'm the one chosen, my momma looks like you,'" she said as she became emotional and buried her face in her hand.

Newton's mother is Nyasha Newton, a member of a noble family of the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe. Thandiwe Newton apologized to "darker-skinned" actresses for being "chosen" over them.

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