However, the actress said she felt the feedback was code for “too Black.”
“I was like, ‘What?'”
Long said in the interview published Wednesday.
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Personally, that’s what I think.
Because if you notice there were no brown skin [actors].
I mean, honestly, I would have been the blackest thing in the film."
So, no problem, I’ll keep it moving."
TheWestworldstar also recalled howAmy Pascal, then the head of Sony Pictures, wanted her to act stereotypically Black.
“I was like, ‘What do you mean?
What changes would you have to make?’
Im like, ‘Ive been to university.
I went to Cambridge.’
She went, Yeah, but youre different.
Shes basically reeling off these stereotypes of how to be more convincing as a Black character.
Everything she said, I was like, ‘Nah, I wouldnt do that.'”
EW has reached out to representatives for Long, Barrymore, Liu, and Pascal.
