We’re here to clear up the confusion…
It’s not the first time something like this has happened and it certainly won’t be the last, but Ireland is most certainly not part of Britain.
In the past we’ve seen the likes of Michael Fassbender, Paul Dunne and perhaps most hurtful of all, Glenn Whelan claimed as British, and the latest in a long list is the notion from Vogue that Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga hails from Britain.
In a great piece about the rising star’s career, and her very good chances of winning an Oscar for her role in Loving, the article makes one glaring error.
The article states: “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.”
Ruth Negga stars on the cover of our January issue! Read the full cover story: https://t.co/DZrisYDl65 pic.twitter.com/Eu5pbFtGc1
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) December 7, 2016
Hmmm, “British exports”…
We would like to point out that Ruth sees herself as both Irish and Ethiopian, having been born in Ethiopia and raised in Limerick.
Neither of these places are part of Britain, so we’re not sure how they came to the conclusion that she is a “British export”.
Indeed in the Vogue article itself, Negga stresses, “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.”
Negga’s career has taken off in recent years following roles in Love/Hate, Fury, World War Z, 12 Years a Slave and recently and excellent performance in Jeff Nichols historical drama Loving.
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