British Olympian Tessa Sanderson has revealed she sat down her eight-year-old twins to explain the Black Lives Matter protests because she is aware they may suffer racist abuse in the future.
The sportswoman, 65, adopted brother and sister Cassius and Ruby Mae seven years ago when they were four months old and she was 58.
They are mixed race, with Irish and Jamaican heritage, and were severely ill initially because their parents were drug users. Tessa said she made sure that she explained their ethnicity to them because she is aware people might make cruel comments related to their heritage in the future.
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The 35-year-old star took to the stage in London at the age of 11, when she appeared alongside Cheryl Baker and Tessa Sanderson in a stage production of 'Cinderella', and she was left devastated after the last show
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Cush Jumbo and Anne-Marie Duff had been fans of each other’s work for years before they became friends when they starred in Common at the National Theatre in 2017. They were both preparing to take on major stage roles when the pandemic hit last year. The pair caught up to talk about why theatre is like church and how Covid will change the plays that audiences want.
Anne-Marie Duff: After my first job in acting I believed everybody would be best friends for ever. We’d all become so close. You realise quite quickly that it’s like lots of passionate love affairs. Along the way you collect people and they stay with you. You might not see each other properly for five or six years then you’re back in rehearsals together and it’s as if you never left. That’s the nature of actors – they’re generally very open, funny and forgiving people.
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