Mar 15, 2017
"I grew up watching romances and all of the sweeping Notebook–type dramas, but the outspoken black girl with natural hair was never the center of that story,” Benton says.” “There’s a line in the eighth episode, where Darius is trying to win Ruby back and she says, ‘You told the world that I’m not a love story.’ When I read that for the first time, I started crying, because I remember what how it felt to want to be in this business so badly and connected to these stories so badly, yet I never saw myself in them. That really affected my self-esteem growing up.”
