Monica Lewinsky
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Podcast Appearances
And I think, you know,
really embracing my history has helped me be able to own the entirety of who I am unapologetically.
And so, yes, it is something that I bring to the screen.
It's something I bring to different characters.
People often joke on me of like, I do a lot of historical period pieces, you know?
And I don't think that's coincidental.
I think I am drawn to this idea of inspecting,
my history and wanting to understand it more.
I played years ago, there was a character, Rosalie, in a TV show called Underground and it was about this group of folks who were enslaved on a plantation and they rose up and ran away and what that journey looked like, right?
And I went into that project a month after my dad passed
And in the project, my character, Rosalie, is the product of a Black woman and, unfortunately, the product of what is referred to in the show as the slave massa.
And I just remember feeling in different scenes, we shot on an actual plantation.
Wow.
And feeling like, you know...
I don't entirely know how I'm going to actually execute this scene.
There's a scene in the pilot of Underground in which my character is being whipped.
And we know the historical context of that, right?
And Misha Green, the creator, the co-creator and co-showrunner of Underground, she also created Lovecraft Country.
Right.
She and I initially really butt heads on how to do this scene.