12 August 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\nUzo Aduba didn’t think she had a “place at the table” in Hollywood as a “gap-toothed, dark-skinned Black actress”.<\/p>\n
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Uzo Adbua didn’t think she’d be a hit in Hollywood<\/p>\n
\nThe ‘Orange is the New Black’ star got her first big break playing Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ Warren in the hit Netflix prison drama, a role that won the actress an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2015, and two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n
\nHowever, she has admitted she didn’t have much confidence in her career and thought she was only destined for theatre.<\/p>\n
\nShe told Parade magazine: “The year before I got Orange, I started to get honest with myself about what I really wanted. And going back to the idea of the seat at the table like, I didn’t even dare honestly to dream of anything beyond the theatre. I didn’t see a space for me in Hollywood. I was an oddball.<\/p>\n
\nAsked if she was speaking as a woman of colour, she clarified: “I’m saying this as a gap-toothed, dark-skinned Black actress with an African-sounding name. There’s more nuance to it. This was a very different time – there was no Idris Elba or Chiwetel Ejiofor or Lupita Nyong. It was more than 10 years ago but feels like 100 years ago.”<\/p>\n
\nAsked if she ever thought about changing her name she replied: “In my culture, the keeping of one’s name is important. Giving that up would be giving up so much of myself.”<\/p>\n
\nThe 42-year-old ‘Painkiller’ star admits she was not “daring” enough to put herself forward for some roles, only doing four auditions around the same time she got the call from Netflix.<\/p>\n
\nAsked if she did lots of auditions, she said: “Not a lot. I had been living in New York for about nine years and only auditioned for about four things in total.<\/p>\n
\nThat’s a combination of not being thought of and not being called and not being daring.”<\/p>\n
\nWhen she did land ‘Orange is the New Black’, hardly anyone had heard of Netflix as a streaming service.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: “Yes. Yes. Girl, yes. Forget about even the audition. Even while I was shooting it, I was walking around telling people, ‘Oh, I’m doing this thing for Netflix.’ And they’re like, ‘What’s that?’ People only knew Netflix because it sent DVDs in the mail. So, I said that it was a web series and maybe it was going to come out on YouTube.<\/p>\n
\nIt helped that ‘House of Cards’ came out first because that was a reference point, but I still had to be like, ‘There’s something called a ‘Smart TV’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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