Ncuti Gatwa : “White Mediocrity" Gets Celebrated, Black People Must Be “Flawless” to Get Half That"
Ncuti Gatwa Says While "White Mediocrity" Gets Celebrated, Black People Must Be "Flawless" to Get Half That https://t.co/LykvbU6riC
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 21, 2024
Ncuti Gatwa is getting candid about his battle with acceptance.
“We’re trained to be like, ‘If I’m not exceptional, I won’t be loved.’ Certainly, I think that was my thing. So, yeah, I think I’m just learning now like, ‘Oh, you are allowed to be loved.’ You don’t have to be excellent or aspire to that term, ‘Black excellence’. What the hell? There’s so much white mediocrity that gets celebrated, and Black people, we have to be absolutely flawless to get half of [that] anyway. So, I’m slowly training myself out of that and being like, ‘No shit. You deserve love just for existing.’ And that has taught me to be a lot more loving as well, in a weird way.”
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