'Loving' Star Ruth Negga Tells Vogue US She's Territorial About Her Identity
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“Loving Star Ruth Negga on Biracial Politics: “I Get Very Territorial About My Identity””
With her mesmerizing performance in Jeff Nichols’s subtly groundbreaking film 'Loving', the Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga has become a star for our time, writes Vogue about their January cover star.
Negga is 35 (though she feels she “was about 22 a second ago”), and her powers of transformation are such that she’s been cast, with striking frequency, as people who look and are nothing like her. Tulip is a busty blonde in the original. Nichols thought at first that she was too petite to play Mildred. Six years ago, she became the National Theatre’s first black Ophelia and let a troubling force of revenge seep through her sweetness. She embodies these characters so fully, you forget they could have been otherwise. At a time when most British exports to Hollywood have tended toward the aristocratic, this Irish-Ethiopian actress is a different kind of royalty, a “brilliant chameleon,” in the words of her friend the director Annie Ryan, fit for a world of equal rights and dissolving borders.
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