Meagan Good shared how her look typically hinders her from getting sure roles.
Meagan is gorgeous by any commonplace. She’s appeared on numerous journal covers, been the love curiosity in music movies, and had photos of herself taped to the bed room partitions and lockers of men and women world wide.
Which is why throughout a latest episode of the Tea Time w/ Raven-Symoné and Miranda podcast (hosted by Raven-Symoné and her spouse Miranda Maday), the hosts chatted with Meagan about her relationship with “fairly privilege.” For context, “fairly privilege” is outlined as financial, social, or political benefits one may expertise as a result of they’re conventionally engaging.
Miranda kicked off the subject by asking Meagan, “What’s your expertise being as fairly as you’re on this world?” Raven expounded upon the query including, “Do you assume it hindered you from taking roles that you just wished or that you just thought you had been proper for?”
She mentioned she acknowledged when her look did not work in her favor when it got here to touchdown sure roles, primarily based on preconceived notions determined by casting administrators throughout and after auditions.
“I can not let you know what number of instances I’ve walked into one thing and I had an audition, and so they had been like, ‘She was nice, however we simply do not realistically imagine her as this character as a result of she’s a reasonably lady,” Meagan mentioned.
“I am like, how are you going to decide what that character ought to appear to be and even what I’ll appear to be?”
The Divorce within the Black star confessed that her expertise can also be ignored relating to the male lead within the undertaking if he is already been solid.
“We have already employed the lead man, and we do not purchase that he might get her,” Meagan mentioned about being missed for roles as a result of the male lead wasn’t seen as equally engaging as her. “That is doing the character a disservice as a result of meaning you are saying that she’s solely in regards to the look.”
“I’ve at all times identified that I wish to be an actress and I wish to have unimaginable alternatives. I wish to make issues which are simply good for my high quality of life that hopefully encourage individuals and make individuals really feel good, however I do know greater than that I wish to be a great particular person. I wish to use that platform to place good issues into the world. I wish to be an advocate for girls. I wish to assist youthful ladies to not need to work as onerous as we did — the identical that those that got here earlier than us have.”
Though fame is not one thing Meagan was chasing after, she is aware of it comes with the territory when working in Hollywood. Regardless of a few of its downsides, she acknowledged that having “fairly privilege” does have its perks at instances.
“I do know that what I wish to put on the planet has by no means been about being well-known, and likewise, I haven’t got a need to be well-known. I do not thoughts getting by way of the airport faster — I’ll say that [laughs]. I do not thoughts the perks, however as many perks include it, come different issues as properly.”
