Naomie talks the talk

Naomie Harris says black women have been “over-represented” in roles with “negative stereotypes” and those are the parts she would never take up. Talking about her role in the Oscar-winning Moonlight, the actor said she has always tried to portray minorities in a positive manner. Harris, 42, played Paula, a drug addict and mother to lead character Chiron (Ashton Sanders). “I’ve always said that I will never play a kind of stereotypical black woman’s role. So I felt, as a black woman, I’d been far too over-represented in the role of prostitute and crack addict and these kinds of negative stereotypes, so I said I would never play a crack addict. “I have always said from the beginning of my career that I only want to portray positive representations of black people in general and black woman in particular,” she said at the GQ Heroes summit. The Skyfall star went on to explain that despite having “reservations” upon reading the script, she was “moved” by the story.  —Agencies 

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