frugivoremag.com - In a recent ‘The Actors’ round-table on The Hollywood Reporter Denzel Washington shared the some advice he gave his daughter, a student at New York University:



“You are black and you’re a woman — and you’re dark-skinned at that — so you have to be a quadruple-triple threat and you know, a lot of actors are not actual actors, they are movie people or whatever it is. I said, you have to learn how to act, dance, sing, move on stage, that is the only place you learn how to act, in my humble opinion. Look at Viola Davis. That’s who you want Viola Davis. That’s who you want to be. Forget about the little pretty girls; if you’re relying on that, when girls; if you’re relying on that, when you hit 40, you’re out the door. You you hit 40, you’re out the door. You better have some chops.”

Denzel Washington’s views on colorism in Hollywood and society in a general, isn’t anything we haven’t heard before. Read more