Leticia Wright Named One of Harper’s Bazaar’s “Women of the Year”
Letitia Wright has been chosen as one of Harper’s Bazaar’s “Women Of The Year” for 2019. The young actress joins the likes of Helena Bonham Carter and Cate Blanchett for the 2019 class. Highlights from her interview for the forthcoming issue are below.
On whether or not she thinks Black Panther changed the film industry: “I think it did. It was doing something that wasn’t done before and it represented the African diaspora. It also took the idea that an all-black cast cannot make this amount of money and slapped it in the face.”
On opening up about her struggles with depression: “I didn’t want anyone to think, ‘You won a Bafta and you’ve got it all together. Nothing’s gone wrong for you.’ Sometimes, the portrayal of us as quote-unquote celebrities is so fake. No one’s that happy all the time. I can only hope that people took something from that speech and felt encouraged.”
You can check out even more from her interview here.
