At a time when unemployment rates are soaring, Harris also recalls her own experience of looking for a job when she left drama school.

“As an adult, I spent nine months unemployed and it was the toughest period of my life,” she says. “I felt like I didn’t have an identity. I felt like I didn’t have the right to call myself an actress. And then if I wasn’t an actress, what was I? Because everyone else was something. So I felt really lost during that period.”

Harris says she wanted to simply make a living out of acting, but was also driven by roles that portrayed women in a particular way. “I wanted to remain true to myself always,” she says. “I wanted to always play positive images of women, and Black women in particular, because those are the images I grew up around.”

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