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Gabrielle Union Reflects on Being Typecast as the "Bitchy, Sassy Friend" as a Black Woman in Hollywood

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Gabrielle Union has opened up about her experience being typecast as the bitchy, sassy friend as a Black woman auditioning for acting roles in Hollywood movies

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Gabrielle Union Reflects on Being Typecast as the "Bitchy, Sassy Friend" as a Black Woman in Hollywood

Gabrielle Union has opened up about her experience being typecast as the bitchy, sassy friend as a Black woman auditioning for acting roles in Hollywood movies

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Gabrielle Union believes that she was typecast as a Black actress with unfair beauty standards set by the entertainment industry. During the “Black Leading Women in Hollywood”, the second episode of Number One on the Call Sheet, Union explained what some executives thought of Black actresses and the roles they were offered. “When you have a more coarse grade of hair, when you have melanin, thicker nose, wider nose, wider lips, you’re not conside…

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Gabrielle Union Opened up About Getting Typecast & We’re Seeing These Movies in a Whole New Light

Over the years, Gabrielle Union has surely established herself as a force in Hollywood. Not only does she turn heads in every carpet she attends, but she’s been in countless movies and TV shows like Being Mary Jane, Bring It On, The Perfect Find, and so on. But, in a candid conversation in the new AppleTV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, Union got honest about being typecast at the beginning of her career. “When you have a more coa…

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