Why does this keep happening?
Ruth Negga is taking the acting world by storm at the minute with her talent in Loving being tipped for an Oscar.
Ruth is gracing the cover of Vogue magazine's January issue which caused major excitement among her fans.
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While the star looks absolutely stunning on the cover, the contens of the article is annoying many Irish people. It seems that the Love/Hate actress was referred to as British in the featured piece.
It reads: "At a time when most British exports to Hollywood have tended toward the aristocratic, this Irish-Ethiopian actress is a different kind of royalty, a 'brilliant chameleon,' in the words of her friend the director Annie Ryan, fit for a world of equal rights and dissolving borders."
Are you rolling your eyes with us?
What is more strange and aggravating about it is that they still refer to her correctly as Irish-Ethiopian almost directly after the 'British' part.
So they either think that Ireland or Ethiopia is part of Britain or the sentence really doesn't make sense. Why mention Britain at all?
It seems that perhaps they were comparing her to British actresses who to Hollywood, but it wasn't particularly well phrased.
The actress who grew up in Limerick spoke in the interview about Irish culture as well as the importance of referring to herself as Irish-Ethiopian.
“I’m always very careful to say I’m Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don’t know any of them.”
Ruth appeared on the Late Late show last night where viewers fell in love with the talented actress.
