Zoe Kravitz Addresses Racial Stereotyping In Hollywood, “I’m Trying To Speak My Mind”

Zoe Kravitz is not biting her tongue. 

The ”Big Little Lies” actress recently sat down with co-star #ReeseWitherspoon for Harper’s BAZAAR where she discussed her childhood, having famous parents, and the lack of diversity in Hollywood.⠀⠀

“I’m not necessarily trying to point the finger at anyone,” Kravitz says about racial stereotyping in the industry. “I just want to make these writers, most of whom are probably white, aware of the things that affect me and likely affect other people as well.”

Kravitz continued by saying, “I’m trying to speak my mind and shift things so Hollywood can be more conscious about things. My biggest pet peeve is when I read scripts that have character descriptions like ‘Stacy, 22, perky,’ then you get four pages in and see, ‘Sarah, 22, African-American,’ which makes it clear that everyone else is white.”

Kravitz has been very open about the prejudices that she has faced in the industry. She says she didn’t know it was so bold that her grandmother, ”The Jeffersons” actress Roxie Roker, was married to filmmaker Sy Kravitz, who was white, until later in her life.

“It was brave of her to go there,” says Kravitz. “I don’t think her intention was to shake things up… It was actually her truth.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Season 2 of Big Little Lies will premiere in 2019.

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