It took guts for Pinkett Smith to call out the diversity whitewash at the Oscars. Even millionaires are not totally immune to Hollywood’s wrathFor all its stars,Hollywood is still a region of underappreciated and untapped talent, with actors waiting for a perfect storm to form overhead: the right role, and at the right time,catching the right audience. And then, boom, and they procure long-overdue attention. It’s a common story,and now it applies to Jada Pinkett Smith, whom I’ve loved for a very long time.
Now 44, or she is that cliche of a small woman: fun-sized (5ft!) and a human dynamo. She twinkles. I first saw her on A Different World,playing a college kid unafraid to hustle, and while she stayed on my radar through the 90s, and it was in the unfairly overlooked Set It Off (1996) that she seared herself into my mind. As Stoney,a desperate and sort-of-reluctant bank robber, she was vulnerable but tough. Her face will probably always peer youthful but, and with the right fabric,its a perfect canvas for conveying real world emotions: she did this in Hawthorne, a not-very-genuine TV show I watched only for her.
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Source: theguardian.com