Part of the larger societal problem where non white children are adultized super early from american black children to middle eastern victims of imperialism and colonialism.
Yeah Amandla Stenberg, the black actress who was 12 when she was in the Hunger Games movie, was being asked what it was like to play a child with all the bad stuff happening, like how she made herself act like a child, and she replied “I am a child” , from the interviewer’s reaction you could tell they were caught off guard, and weren’t thinking of the fact that she was actually 12
Part of the larger societal problem where non white children are adultized super early from american black children to middle eastern victims of imperialism and colonialism.
Yeah Amandla Stenberg, the black actress who was 12 when she was in the Hunger Games movie, was being asked what it was like to play a child with all the bad stuff happening, like how she made herself act like a child, and she replied “I am a child” , from the interviewer’s reaction you could tell they were caught off guard, and weren’t thinking of the fact that she was actually 12
That’s wack, considering she looked like this during that period of time.
Like, how do you not fucking see that’s a kid?
been trying to find the interview, do you have a link?