Aja Naomi King And Lupita Nyong’o For ELLE
A “How To Get Away With Murder” star and an Oscar winner are two of the talents featured on the cover of ELLE magazine.
Aja Naomi King and Lupita Nyong’o are each covering the publication as part of the mag’s annual Women In Hollywood list.
Lupita on her success, despite an agent telling her that her skin was “too dark for African television”:
“I grew up with a very limited mirror of myself. I watched a lot of TV, but the people on it were always light skinned. And now I have a platform that takes me into people’s houses and onto the pages of their magazines.”
Aja Naomi King on looking to the inspiring people she works with to get started on her future as an artist:
“I want to write, I want to direct, I want to produce—I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist. I always wanted to do that, but I didn’t think I had the tools. Now I look at Viola [Davis] and I look at Nate [Parker] and I look at Shonda [Rhimes] and it’s like, You just do it. You just begin, you know?”
Other stars featured include Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Anna Kendrick and Helen Mirren.
Congrats to these glowing goddesses!
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