Meagan is gorgeous by any commonplace. She’s appeared on numerous journal covers, been the love curiosity in music movies, and had photographs of herself taped to the bed room partitions and lockers of men and women world wide.
Which is why throughout a current episode of the Tea Time w/ Raven-Symoné and Miranda podcast (hosted by Raven-Symoné and her spouse Miranda Maday), the hosts chatted with Meagan about her relationship with “fairly privilege.” For context, “fairly privilege” is outlined as financial, social, or political benefits one would possibly expertise as a result of they’re conventionally enticing.
Miranda kicked off the subject by asking Meagan, “What’s your expertise being as fairly as you’re on this world?” Raven expounded upon the query including, “Do you suppose it hindered you from taking roles that you just needed or that you just thought you have been proper for?”
She stated she acknowledged when her look did not work in her favor when it got here to touchdown sure roles, based mostly on preconceived notions determined by casting administrators throughout and after auditions.
“I can not inform you what number of instances I’ve walked into one thing and I had an audition, they usually have been like, ‘She was nice, however we simply do not realistically imagine her as this character as a result of she’s a fairly lady,” Meagan stated.
“I am like, how are you going to decide what that character ought to appear like and even what I’ll appear like?”
The Divorce within the Black star confessed that her expertise can also be ignored in terms of the male lead within the challenge if he is already been forged.
“We have already employed the lead man, and we do not purchase that he might get her,” Meagan stated about being ignored for roles as a result of the male lead wasn’t seen as equally enticing as her. “That is doing the character a disservice as a result of meaning you are saying that she’s solely concerning the look.”
“I’ve at all times recognized that I wish to be an actress and I wish to have unimaginable alternatives. I wish to make issues which are simply good for my high quality of life that hopefully encourage individuals and make individuals really feel good, however I do know greater than that I wish to be an excellent individual. I wish to use that platform to place good issues into the world. I wish to be an advocate for ladies. I wish to assist youthful girls to not need to work as exhausting as we did — the identical that those that got here earlier than us have.”
Though fame is not one thing Meagan was chasing after, she is aware of it comes with the territory when working in Hollywood. Regardless of a few of its downsides, she acknowledged that having “fairly privilege” does have its perks at instances.
“I do know that what I wish to put on the earth has by no means been about being well-known, and in addition, I haven’t got a need to be well-known. I do not thoughts getting via the airport faster — I’ll say that [laughs]. I do not thoughts the perks, however as many perks include it, come different issues as properly.”
