✨ ashabrom, candicepatton, NafessaWilliams, and VanessaMorgan are channeling their superhero alter egos to affect real-life change by using their platforms to call for more diversity in Hollywood.
and there was a moment where we had to perform it to the audience — it's the three of us, on stage, performing, and we're in the costume,” Asha tells. “And I remember there was a moment where we all just looked at each other, and it was so overwhelming because it was in that moment that we realized like, ‘Guys, we are literally three Black women leading Josie and the Pussycats,’ this is iconic; this has not been done.
“It's dangerous to perpetuate this idea that we are just there to support white people through their woes.” -Asha Bromfield Asha doubled down on this sentiment when we talked. “I've been in this business for over ten years now,” the 25-year-old says. “Black characters [are] being used as these shoulders to cry on, as like, some form of a support system to assist a white character on their journey, and I think that can be really toxic because there's so much more to Black people. Our existence is just as much a vital fabric of this universe in the same way that other people are.
Adding, “These ideas of what it looks like to be Black, what it looked like to be Latino, what it looks like to be Asian — we're fed this idea. Then you give a white person a script and you're like, ‘OK, go write about it.’ It's so hard for them to break out about mental conditioning.”, is a story about a girl visiting her estranged father in Jamaica in the middle of category five Hurricane Gustov.
“I often think about little Asha and the things that she didn't think was possible for herself, or the things that maybe she did think was possible at a really young age, but then was stunned by what the world tells you is possible,” she says. “I just think it's so important for people to understand that if you have a dream, if you have a story, share it, do it, go for it. And that truly is what motivates me.
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