“I was a Black girl playing the smartest girl in school, which was a very big deal at that time,” the HSM star said.
. “people will claim ‘disney isn’t being racist because they took corbin!’ okay, but...they refused to take a Black woman. the misogynoir is blatant.”
Coleman took the experience personally. “That heartbreak really hit me very deeply and did cause a bit of a depression because it helped me to recognize that I was overly identifying with what I was doing and not who I was,” she told Romano, but in the end, she tried to turn it into a point of inspiration. Rather than letting herself be “reduced to Taylor McKessie,” she used her character as an opportunity to “leave a message that lets you know that your dreams are also possible.
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