Nicole Hill

Anything with Bette Davis, I was like, her eyes are so big and she's so bad and I, like, need to watch everything that she does.

Marlon Brando...

was my first really big crush and guys and dolls was my obsession and I used to like every Friday night God bless my mom and my aunt I would invite them up to my room and we would do a viewing of guys and dolls like every single Friday and I would share new facts that I had learned what like what

OK, so I mean, this is like a very basic fact, but Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra hated each other.

And there's this scene where Frank Sinatra has to eat cheesecake and he really hates cheesecake.

And so Marlon Brando keeps messing up the scene so that Frank Sinatra has to keep eating the cheesecake.

And I was like, oh, they are so dramatic.

Oh, my God.

I remember the first time I noticed that I didn't want to see a Black person in the films because of the way they were going to show up, which was Gone with the Wind.

And I remember not knowing anything about Hattie McDaniel's history.

I just remember feeling really ashamed.

Of like, that's what I would have been.

I was going to these movies as a form of escapism.

And then whenever black people showed up in the movies, they were always serving.

They were always poor.

They were always versions of.

Myself that maybe I feared.

I was like, I don't know.

No, no, no, no, no.

I don't want to grow up and be that.