If Viola or Andra win, they will be the second black woman ever to win Best Actress, after Halle Berry for Monster’s Ball in 2000. What would Hattie, denied a spot in the “whites-only” Hollywood Cemetery, have expected the industry to be like now? Its only job is to literally make dreams come true, bring dreams to life onscreen. Amy Heckerling, director of the greatest movie ever, highlighted the problem with this, when she talked about lack of roles for older women: “Hollywood is a dream factory. Let’s have an industry where we’re not celebrating a woman winning a certain gong for only the second time in nearly a century.

Source: Daily Mirror March 15, 2021 17:59 UTC