German - Actress | July 1, 1991 -
My father is German; my mother is African-American. Growing up, I visited my grandparents in Berlin a lot. I would not see any other person of color for three weeks. People would stare. They would say things like, 'Oh, you look like chocolate - I want to eat you up!'
Zazie Beetz
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In the United States, if you're African-American, it can be assumed that your family has been here for generations. In Europe, colonialism is much more alive, and it's assumed you're from Nigeria or Senegal.
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When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.
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I don't know how people say exercising is addictive.
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I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that.
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At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.
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It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them.
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Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life.
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I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.
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I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.
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I'm pretty picky about my hair, so I end up always styling it myself.
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I feel like I pull inspiration, in general, from how I feel on a day.
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