This awards season, Vogue shines a light on the actors bringing important, female-centric stories to life and proving the tide is finally turning in Hollywood.
Laura Harrier
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Laura Harrier didn’t see BlacKkKlansman’s now infamous finale until she was watching the film’s première in Cannes. “I was as hit by the weight of that ending as everyone else,” says the 28-year-old, whose leading role as a student activist in Spike Lee’s affecting film, based on the true story of a black police officer infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan, has cemented her as one of Hollywood’s brightest new stars. “What was really interesting to me was how we still believe the propaganda of the time,” she says of her research into the Black Power movement. “The general rhetoric we were taught at school was that it was violent, anti-white and negative. This film gave me a different view.”