The joy for me is to see Black women from around the world getting our stories told: Letitia is Guyanese British, and she had to learn a ton of Shona when she was the lead in my play at the Young Vic.
Putting out stories that countered that - whether through acting in my first play or watching others in my subsequent plays - felt like what I was meant to do. When I was in grad school, I was distraught about how terribly African women were portrayed in the West, if they ever were. We had to lean on each other, and Dominique understood what we were dealing with. You never expect grief it just hits when it wants.
There was a tender day on set when we connected deeply. There’s something courageous in her she’s not going to walk into a space unprepared. We’re both children of immigrants and, though our journeys are different , we have that similarity when your parents come from another place and you’re used to a dual cultural existence. Danai Gurira: For Dominique to be out there now is thrilling.
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