Who are we, are we the conception of visual and verbal imagery, derived by others … Really? In the poetic delivery of London born actress Thandie Newton the daughter of a Black Zimbabwean Shona princess, her father, Nick Newton, a White Briton laboratory technician and artist.
She embraces race with the awareness of a cultural and personal difference she describes as “Otherness.”
“From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn’t fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.”