'I wasn't seeing people that looked like me on my screen.'
creator Nida Manzoor, the new movie follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes that she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage to Salim .
I also think there's this sense of responsibility that you can have as a sibling and definitely, for me, feeling like I want to be this good role model, especially to my younger brother, which isn't all the time. And the kind of shame I can feel if I'm not being my best self. Or if I need his help, there can be a real resistance.
I definitely feel like I've been there where I haven't felt like I had a purpose, and so I'm just sort of filling this void with whatever or whoever is around, and not having the awareness, and it just being a massive blur. I think that's what Lena is going through at the beginning. I mean, definitely. Representation is a huge reason why I even got into acting. I wasn't seeing people that looked like me on my screen, and I thought,"Well, I'llIt's not the sole reason. I think I'd find that really hard, for it to just be some socio-political reason why I'm an actor.
In the film, we see your little sister Ria doing anything that she can to protect you. She's got a lot of teenage emotion driving her. If you could go back and tell your teenage self something, what would you want her to know?
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