#HaileeSteinfeld thanked “Sinners” director
#RyanCoogler for giving her the opportunity to connect with her Black roots and learn more about her family’s history.
The ‘True Grit’ actress’ maternal grandfather is half-Black and half-Filipino. Steinfeld said that making discoveries about her own family history informed her performance as Mary, a multi-racial woman in Coogler’s 1930s vampire thriller.
When asked about how her relationship with being white-passing has changed since filming “Sinners,” Steinfeld told Sirius XM host
#MikeMuse that it “left me with more questions than it did answers.”
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