Amandla Stenberg of the upcoming teen flick Everything, Everything. In the film, Amandla plays Maddym a beautiful young girl who is allergic to everything. Her mom keeps her in the house to protect her from her illness, but that changes when a new boy, named Olly, moves in next door.
In an interview with Amandla, she got deep about hair politics in Hollywood, “One of the biggest steps I can do is represent my hair texture, which is actually a lot coarser than people may think. I have more of a 4A type of curl. But when you see projects like this, with a girl in the lead role who is suppose to be romanticized and is suppose to be the beauty standard of the film and has natural hair — that’s the biggest way I can contribute to that dialog because hopefully, that opens the door for more representation.”
Everything, Everything is in theaters May 12.
Amandla Stenberg Gets Deep About Black Women And Hair In Hollywood was originally published on globalgrind.com
