Exclusive: malorieblackman talks MeghanMarkle, Crossfire and racism in 2019: 'It reminds me of the abuse that Princess Diana got, the way the press hounded her. I watch what’s going on with Meghan and I think ‘this is along the same lines, but worse’.'
Blackman thought she was done with the. However, world events conspired against her, and she found the voice of one of the characters talking to her again.came about because of a combination of Brexit and Trump and it was watching what was going on, and the politics of fear and division and how it actually seemed to be working for these people,” says Blackman.
It reminds me of the abuse that Princess Diana got, the way the press hounded her. I watch what’s going on with Meghan and I think ‘this is along the same lines, but worse’. tells the stories of multiple generations of Noughts and Crosses. Tobey Durbridge is a politician who is about to become the first Nought Prime Minister when he is charged with murder.
“It seemed to me that very few people who start off with high ideals get to the top and still manage to hold onto those ideals, and still remain who they were at the beginning of the process,” says Blackman. “If your goal is to get to the top, then it’s about what you embrace to do that and which parts of society you go after to play to your base.
“It’s this thing of finding one or two things and seeing which way people are going on them, then running in front of them and saying ‘let me lead you’. It’s things like making people mistrust the media so that when they are telling the truth about you, no one will believe them.”might be fiction, but it clearly addresses some of the behaviours and patterns we’re seeing in real life… including the reluctance of society to call out racism when it happens.
“It’s fascinating the language that is used, people really don’t want to use the word that somebody is racist, even when everything they say and do shows who they are,” says Blackman. “I was reading about
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