Tessa Thompson has spoken about the importance of representing all kinds of black experiences on screen.
“You look at the way that black and brown people are portrayed in the media, and there’s a sameness – we’re obsessed with watching black pain and black and brown criminality.
The Westworld star made the comments in a new Variety interview with Muslim comedian Ramy Youssef about diversity in film and television.
Thompson added that “the work that we do should be inside a diversity of ideas around our identity, because Muslims are not a monolith, and neither are black people”.