list of young actresses of color who deserve to have more recognition and opportunities as actors like Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Kathryn Newton, Millie Bobby Brown etc. It would be refreshing to see more of these talented and underrated actresses of color
*Note, the list consists of actors born within the mid 90s-2000s. This might not be a complete list so whoever sees this is welcome to add more actors that I missed. I might update this post from time to time
This list has gotten so long that I have to make a separate one for male actors of color
Rachel Zegler-(she deserved way better than the hate over snow white)
Lana Condor-(aside from x-men apocalypse and the to all the boys trilogy, she hasn't done much blockbusters compared to Noah, despite her being the lead in the latter films)
Dominique Thorne-(She has her Ironheart and deserves more opportunities, both in the mcu and outside)
Halle Bailey
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Lola Tung-(same example with Lana, pretty jarring how her male co-stars are getting work beyond the summer i turned pretty and yet there's nothing from Lola)
Ashley Liao
Megan Suri-(another cast member from Never Have I Ever who also deserves all the opportunites)
Joy Sunday-(Bianca from Wednesday, deserves as much love as Emma Myers)
Iman Vellani-(Ms Marvel/Kamala Khan herself, deserves to have a thriving career and be as big like Tom Holland)
Ayo Edebiri-(2023 was a big year for her, hopefully it continues and she's not overlooked or overshadowed by her white co-stars in The Bear)
Savannah Smith-(Carried the gossip girl reboot, she deserves to have as much recognition as Leighton and Blake did after the original Gossip Girl series)
Madison Reyes-(Julie and the Phantoms deserved better than to be cancelled after one season and with a cliffhanger. Let her star in a musical and or disney film)
Simone Ashley-(One of the main leads in Bridgerton yet Phoebe and Nicola have more upcoming projects than her in Hollywood)
Charithra Chandran
Arsema Thomas
India Amarteifio
Madeleine Madden-(Carried season 2 of The Wheel of Time and if you watched the whole season, you'll understand why)
Moses Ingram-(Did not deserve the hate over the Obi Wan Kenobi series)
Minnie Mills-(She deserved to appear in season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty)
Amrit Kaur
Alyah Chanelle Scott-(it's frustrating that both the main leading ladies of color are overshadowed by Renee Rapp and Pauline, who's related to Timothy)
Letitia Wright-(Pretty jarring how she's been in plenty of mcu projects yet it's easy to count the number of roles she's been in outside the mcu, and has been acting since 2011, longer than Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor Joy and Millie Bobby Brown. Wright has even acted as long as Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams and they've been in more projects than her)
Yasmin Finney-(She's done both Heartstopper and Doctor Who)
Imani Lewis-(First Kill deserved better than being cancelled after one season. Let her do more horror and supernatural themed
Leah Jeffries-(Deserves all the support especially once the Percy Jackson series comes out)
Auli'i Cravahlo
Erin Kellyman-(After the Han Solo film, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Willow, let her appear in more sci-fi and action blockbusters)
Sadly, tumblr has a 30 limit on adding gifs. I definitely missed so many on the list. Anyone is welcome to add more to the list. All of these talented actresses deserve all the love, appreciation and more opportunities and roles
I might do a part 2 which will include male actors
Concept for a remake of “Tremors” (well, more of a reboot than a remake):
1) Nick Offerman as the doomsday prepper with a giant collection of firearms in his bunker (basically Burt Gummer, but not Burt)
2) John Boyega as the protagonist. He is a city slicker seismologist who goes to the desert town of Perfection, Nevada to study earthquakes.
3) Olivia Holt as the deuteragonist. She is a local horse rancher/horse girl who befriends the seismologist, but clashes with him at first.
4) Ryan Hurst as the leader of a biker gang that are all wiped out by the graboids. Laurie Holden plays his girlfriend who is the last member of the biker gang to get eaten. I don’t have any actors in mind for the rest of the gang, but I imagined a real casting director would pick more lesser known actors for these roles.
5) Ke Huy Quan, Ming-Na Wen, Simu Liu, Ashley Liao, and Dallas Liu are the Asian-American family that lives in Perfection and runs the main general store. Quan is Ming Na’s husband, Simu is Ming Na’s lazy brother who smokes weed all the time.
6) Joe Keery as Olivia Holt’s cowboy boyfriend who gets eaten by a graboid.
7) Emma Myers as Nick Offerman’s rebellious daughter who he made sure was trained to use firearms (so Ron Swanson and Enid from Wednesday get the scene where they just start blasting away at a graboid that attacks the bunker).
8) William Fichtner plays the jerk of the town who gets eaten by a graboid.
9) George Lopez plays the hapless mayor of Perfection.
10) Michael Rooker plays Simu Liu’s weed dealer who gets eaten by a graboid.
