Daily News | Young, gifted, and Black: Dominique Thorne enters the Wakandaverse
The journey to Wakanda from New York, by way of Delaware, has been “full of unexpected twists and turns and lots of confusion” for actor Dominique Thorne, who plays Riri Williams — the 19-year-old genius studying at M.I.T. — inHer parents — Trinidadian immigrants Nerissa Guy and Navie Guy — moved to Newark, Del. when Thorne was in college. Delaware, she said. gave “a gift of home” to her younger brothers, Ky-Mani and Caleb.
Then, when it came to Thorne’s year, the acting teacher, Greg Parente, decided not to do that scene. The students were up in arms, and Parente relented. “I was doing this scene with a kid in my class named Charlie,” Thorne said, “And it was as fulfilling as I thought it would be. That was my dream role growing up.”. “The scene shows two loners in a bar.
. “It was a beautiful thing,” Thorne said, “to see that once I did get the experience, they truly were interested in working with me, to see that they meant what they said.”is — quoting playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry — “to be young, gifted, and Black,” in appreciation of her talent and genius.
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