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What was one of the first decisions you felt you made where you were in control? It was the first sex scene in the whole series. I was the lead in this new TV show. Thandie Newton. Top off. I was actually really grateful for the honesty. Then definitely fucking not. So we took care of that. That was in the second season. We had this sort of sexist, casually racist idiot, you know? I had an agreement at the beginning of the second season because I was pregnant with my last baby.

I was going to be in my third trimester when I made the show. And you know what happened. Everyone hated me for leaving, but no one knew of the agreement a year before. It was extremely painful.

Then Westworld was sent to me. On the last days of doing Rogue … I got killed miserably. I get taken down to the bowels of the hotel, where we had this huge fight where he strangled me to death, and then I get dumped in this garbage-disposal tank, and the last shot of me is sinking down into garbage, like into sewage, babe.

I ended up in the fetal position, weeping, sobbing. I had put two years of hard work into that show. And there I was: Westworld Garbage Disposal. You have so little to go on. You have the script and you have the director. Doing something with all the best intentions and then feeling frustrated. I felt a bit like that with W. I really thought Oliver Stone was going to stick it to the administration. Yeah, very much so. They are all going to be in cages in the Hague.

A mistake that ended up being a good thing. Or one that made you think. I did a movie with Bertolucci [ Besieged, ]. What a privilege. I was trying to watch it. No shit.

But that was supposed to be a one-hour movie made for television, based on a short story. I wanted to work with Bertolucci. And it was really great. Went to Rome for eight weeks. We went to Kenya to shoot for a week briefly for the dream sequences. Anyway, when it came to editing and showing, he showed a few people, and it became clear that this movie was going to be more than a TV movie.

It ended up being a feature, going to festivals, highly praised. And I was proud, obviously. So he used all the footage from Africa, and [the film] ended up being an hour and a half. The footage from Africa was a big old chunk. But they never specified where in Africa it was. It was a generic African country in a state of serious unrest. And I remember being on a panel in Cannes with Bernardo and the producers.

But the truth was I actually agreed with the journalist. You can see how it happened because it was supposed to be a one-hour movie and it was supposed to be a little poem.

Certainly not now. And not then either. The casual ignorance of that is damaging. I did want to know what you thought about Paul Haggis specifically. Did that surprise you? Nothing surprises me, Alex. I told you that with Paul, he was concerned that I was going to feel comfortable in that scene. I was aware of his being a Scientologist, which was surprising to me.

Christmas gifts would be something to do with Scientology. Like what? Like a book with the greatest hits of Scientology, a bit like a Bible kind of thing.

What was your experience like on Mission: Impossible 2? Oh, I was never asked. I was so scared of Tom. He was a very dominant individual. He tries superhard to be a nice person. But the pressure. He takes on a lot. And I think he has this sense that only he can do everything as best as it can be done.

There was one time, we were doing this night scene, there were so many extras with pyrotechnics and you name it, and it was a scene with him and me on the balcony. I get angry with him. He was downstairs looking at everything on a monitor. Which I think was very helpful to him, but it was extremely unhelpful to the rest of us. So this scene was happening, and Tom was not happy with what I was doing because I had the shittiest lines.

You be me. It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity. It was a real shame. Mona voice. Show all 12 episodes. Donovan Journalist as Thandie Newton. Roz as Thandie Newton. Show all 6 episodes. Grace Travis as Thandie Newton. Show all 24 episodes. Aisha as Thandie Newton. Show all 8 episodes. Makemba 'Kem' Likasu as Thandie Newton. Makemba 'Kem' Likasu voice, uncredited.

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Self - Special Guest as Thandie Newton. Newton was born in London, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker and Nick Newton, a Cornish laboratory technician and artist. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved". Newton made her film debut in Flirting She gained international recognition in the Merchant Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme's Beloved , in which she played the title character alongside co-stars Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

John Carter on the American television series ER. She reprised the role once more for the series finale in I'm taking back what's mine," Newton told British Vogue. The actress, whose full name is Melanie Thandiwe Newton, said her name was misspelled in the credits to her first film in , Flirting, which co-starred Nicole Kidman and Noah Taylor. As a result, Thandie Newton became the widely-used spelling of her name and has stuck with the actress for three decades.

Newton also told Vogue she welcomed how much representation of ethnic minority groups has improved in the entertainment landscape. And to not be complicit in the objectification of black people as 'others', which is what happens when you're the only one," she said.