Riverdale’s Ashleigh Murray: All black women aren’t the same

Ashleigh Murray says she gets mistaken for other black actresses “all the time”.

The Riverdale star told Teen Vogue it’s something she’s been dealing with “for a while”.

“I noticed it when I first started working. Even in commercials, my friends or friends of friends would tag me in photos and be like, ‘Oh my God, is this you?'”

She says they’re often other “random” black girls who aren’t even her age.

“There’s always this underlying perception and that joke of every black person looks alike.

“You can label that for any race, but it tends to happen a lot with people of colour.”

She says it specifically happens with black women and never happens to her Riverdale co-stars.

“People aren’t confusing Madelaine with anyone else, or Lily, or Cole, or KJ, or anybody.

“I think it’s something that needs to be talked about and pointed out.

“We are not all the same.”

Ashleigh says it’s an issue that’s important to talk about because she’s a role model for younger women.

“I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don’t want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt; that I didn’t belong; that I would never succeed in the medium that I’m choosing to pursue because my hair isn’t straight or my skin isn’t light or my eyes aren’t bright.

“There are so many things that tend to play against us. I think it’s …

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