Issa Rae, Zoe Kravitz 2022 ELLE Women In Hollywood Honorees

Issa Rae, Zoe Kravitz And Ariana Debose Among 2022 ELLE Women In Hollywood Honorees

Posted on October 13, 2022 - By Janeé Bolden

Source: Sharif Hamza / ELLE

Ariana DeBose Says It’s Been Insinuated She Got An Oscar Because She Is Queer And Afro-Latina

On defying haters and earning her accolades:

“There have been insinuations that I was given an Oscar because I’m queer and because I am an Afro-Latina. And that’s haterade. That’s just haterade. And I know that. We wouldn’t have had conversations around my identity, or any of the labels associated with my name, if my work had not first been exceptional. And I’ve always said, I don’t believe I should be handed anything. I want to earn my seat at the table. I don’t believe in everybody getting gold stars just because you tried. I want the gold star because I busted my balls to be where I am, and I’ve done the work, and I trained, and I took the private lessons, and I humbled myself. I fell on my face multiple times in the 10 years it took me to get to where I am. Hell, I took a voice lesson yesterday. Yesterday.”

Source: Sharif Hamza / ELLE

On an interesting ‘only-in-Hollywood’ moment of hers:

“I was cornered in a bathroom at a Hollywood event and someone told me I took their job from them. And that, to me, was an only-in-Hollywood moment. That never happened to me in high school— no one ever cornered me and said, ‘You took my boyfriend.’ I guess I didn’t have that problem.”