LEGENDS OF TOMORROW
A lot of progress has been made when it comes to visibility on screen, but Hollywood still has a very long way to go in representation, especially when it comes to the people in charge of creating that media. The overwhelming majority of the entertainment industry is still very male, very straight, and very white. Although we’ve seen an increase of programming that centers narratives of women, people of color, queer people, and other often marginalized groups, the change taking over popular culture is still, for many, slow to come.
Maisie Richardson-Sellers, best known for playing not one but two roles in The CW’s cult favorite DC Comics series Legends of Tomorrow, hopes to correct that.
The queer, 28-year-old, Guyanese-British actress is out to change Hollywood by being the kind of creator it needs—one who is actively working to uplift and spotlight the voices that have been ignored for too long.
“We have to diversify Hollywood from the top down behind the camera before we will start to regularly see honest, complex, positive, diverse representation and storytelling,” says Richardson-Sellers, who holds two
