Thandie Newton, who is of Zimbabwean descent, has shocked Hollywood by saying that racism is still prevalent within the movie industry, though not to a threateningly large extent. And to justify her statement, she revealed an audition experience where the studio boss was quite unwilling to accept the idea of a black woman playing the part of a college graduate! "I've experienced racism in Hollywood but not as conflict or in a threatening way, just the ignorance of people. There was one time I went for a meeting for this big movie and I was up for a character who wasn't written as black. The character was a college graduate and the studio head, a woman, said, 'How can we make this role more black if we are going to have you in the film?' And I said, 'Well, I think as it's written it's fine...' And she said, 'Yeah, I know, but she is a graduate, she has been to university.' So I said, 'I've been to university.' And then it was, 'Yeah, but you're different.' I wasn't offended. It's just nonsense. I didn't do the film," she explains.
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