Danielle Deadwyler would like to thank all the women who helped her get to where she is. As part of our 2024 Women in Hollywood portfolio, the actress talks about the first time she saw herself in a character, the most difficult lesson she’s learned in her career so far, and more.
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00:00I'm Danielle Deadwyler and I'm a woman in Hollywood.
00:03When other women see me on screen, I hope they see their experience.
00:07I hope they see the dynamism of their experience.
00:10The challenges, the difficulties, the beauty, the confusion, the searching.
00:16I hope they see the searching. That's the realest thing.
00:19The first time I saw myself in a character was in this book titled Honey I Love.
00:26And it is this glorious children's book.
00:30And it just explores all these beautiful black girls and like how they play,
00:36how they enjoy their family, how they have all kinds of hairstyles.
00:41And I just felt like those little girls were me.
00:45The first woman to open the doors for me.
00:48It's not really a singular woman.
00:50There can't be because community is the biggest thing that I've ever had bolster.
00:55My talents, my mind, my sense of confidence.
01:00So it's a collective.
01:02There's never a singular person who's doing something for you in your life.
01:05The most difficult lesson I've learned in my career,
01:09which is I'm actually really good at it.
01:11And yet it is the thing that you're incessantly trying to employ.
01:15It's patience. Patience.
01:18And add a little grace in that thing too.