Denzel Washington said to the Hollywood Reporter that he told his daughter her dark skin could hold her back in the entertainment industry. His advice: work harder.
I tell my daughter — she’s at NYU — I say: “You’re black, you’re a
woman, and you’re dark-skinned at that. So you have to be a
triple/quadruple threat.” I said: “You gotta learn how to act. You gotta
learn how to dance, sing, move onstage.” That’s the only place, in my
humble opinion, you really learn how to act. I said: “Look at Viola
Davis. That’s who you want to be. Forget about the little pretty girls;
if you’re relying on that, when you hit 40, you’re out the door. You
better have some chops.”
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