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![]() RTS winner applauds black success
Diane Parish in Clocking Off with Will Johnson (L)
"I'm over the moon, but more than that I felt a renewed optimism," she told BBC News Online.
"But I thought it was wonderful she acknowledged Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and all these people, and other black women struggling to get parts." Parish first became known to UK audience in the mid-1980s, with appearances on EastEnders and Lovejoy.
She has no truck with the idea that the Oscars awards were a convenient political gesture for the Academy. "Halle Berry has been plugging away doing excellent work all these years and I thought it was justified, it was 100% genuine. Significance "And Denzil Washington is an astonishing actor, he's believable and the film is itself was good. Denzil deserved it," she said. But if both actors deserved their Oscars for their film roles alone, Parish feels there is no doubting the wide significance of the win.
"It'll give people the confidence to give black actors leading roles, to try to ignore the fact of colour and reward talent. "If only there were more opportunity. "Hopefully now it'll happen, it's brought the issue to the forefront - and hopefully it carries across the ocean, too." 'Silence' Parish believes that the achievements of Berry and Washington are a sign of the ground that has to be made up by black actors in the UK. "There's a convenient silence sometimes about black achievement, not only from the white press but from the black media too.
But with an RTS award under her arm, does she feel this is finally changing? "I'm please to have recognized in TV but I would like it to happen in film," said Parish. "The struggle's still going on but it shouldn't be a struggle, now the Americans have gone all the way. "We're integrated in this society in every way, and the struggle's getting a bit boring." |
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