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British actress Nathalie Emmanuel is excited for young, Black girls to watch her starring role on F9, the latest film in the Fast & Furious franchise. The actress, who plays the daring Ramsey, explained why it’s important for children of color to see themselves represented on screen.
“It’s always really heartwarming when someone comes up to me and they say ‘My daughter hated her hair, she hated her skin, she hated these things about herself and she saw you and now she loves herself,’” the 32-year-old actress tells Essence magazine. “It literally makes me want to cry because I was that little girl so the fact
