Teyana Taylor isn’t letting the criticism of her One Battle After One other character get her down.
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The singer-turned-actress is buzzing after her large win on the Golden Globes, profitable Greatest Supporting Actress, and beating heavyweights like Emily Blunt, Elle Fanning, Ariana Grande, Amy Madigan, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.
Sadly, the response to her win hasn’t been fully constructive, even from followers of Taylor. A number of people who watched One Battle After One other criticized the movie for over-sexualizing Teyana’s character, evaluating her win to Halle Berry’s Oscar for Monster’s Ball, a task the place her character had intercourse with Billy Bob Thornton.
All through the movie, Taylor’s character, Perfidia Beverly Hills, turned a fixation for Sean Penn’s Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, a corrupt, ultraconservative white man in energy who has an obsession with Black ladies in personal. In a dialog with Self-importance Truthful launched following her Golden Globe win, Taylor tiptoed across the matter, ensuring to not get into specifics.
“I believe we don’t take pleasure in seeing the tough actuality, however that is what’s occurring,” she says when requested in regards to the criticsm of Perfidia.
“One other individual interviewed me and talked about one thing about Perfidia and the way folks felt like she was overly attractive,” she continued. “And I’m like, do you understand the very first thing we see of Perfidia is her having a gun to a man’s head and he calls her candy factor? Are you—are we watching the identical movie?”
Taylor went on to clarify that she appears to see her character makes use of her sexuality to her benefit somewhat than getting taken benefit of.
“Perfidia sort of dived into the, ‘Oh, you suppose I’m sizzling? All proper, wager. Cool if I get to nonetheless do what I’m doing, all I gotta do is present you slightly titty or one thing,’” she mentioned.
This isn’t the primary time Teyana has addressed this line of considering, insisting the fact of her character is just too laborious to simply accept for some viewers throughout an interview with The Hollywood Reporter final yr.
“Is that not what Black ladies undergo?” she mentioned. “We’re fetishized, particularly by creepy motherfuckers. And we’re, sadly, the least protected folks. Displaying what Black ladies undergo, that’s a tough actuality to simply accept. And this film ought to spark debate, I all the time knew it will, as a result of typically you simply bought to shake the desk.”
