Why are actors of color, who have fewer opportunities anyway, only allowed to play their own race?
And sometimes theyre not even allowed to play their own race, Chan saidin a new cover interviewwithAllure.
John Wayne played Genghis Khan.
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If John Wayne can play Genghis Khan, I can play Bess of Hardwick.
I feel likeHamiltonopened minds a lot.
We have a black man playing George Washington, she remarked.
They describe it as America then, told by America now.
And I think our art should reflect life now.
And life then, too.
The actress also spoke to her own sense of compound identity.
