*Charlize Theron has added her voice to the chorus of folks calling for more diversity.
The actress says she wants her two adopted Black daughters to “see themselves” represented in both media and “in life.”
During a conversation with Variety’s The Big Ticket podcast, Theron touched on race and gender inclusivity in Hollywood and noted how she wants her children to “feel they belong.”
Theron is mother to a boy named Jackson, 8, whom she’s rising as a girl, and a four-year-old biologically female daughter named August, per PEOPLE.
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This is what #BlackAmerica should be protesting!!! Famed Actor Charlize Theron raising this black male child she adopted as a female. I need my black men. I need my black children. #ChildAbuse pic.twitter.com/I1yAH0VPt8
— Angela Stanton King ?? (@theangiestanton) June 27, 2020
“I’m a mom to two small Black girls and I want them to grow up in a world where they see themselves, where there is an awareness that they can be whomever they want to be because they see it,” Theron shared. “And that’s not just in cinema, that’s in life, too.”
She continued, “I want to surround them in a world where they feel they belong and they can shine and they can live to their full potential.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, she offered a solution to lack of inclusion in Hollywood.
“I think call them out, and I think we’re at a place now where we feel brave enough to do that … If we have to involve some shaming, then that’s what we have to do. If we are silent, even if we’re not the ones not making the right decisions, and we are silent, we are just as culpable, and we have to use our voices,” Theron explained.
