The January cover of the U.S. edition of Vogue magazine was unveiled earlier this week. It showcases Ruth Negga, star of the dramatic film Loving.
The January cover of Vogue, featuring Ruth Negga in #ALEXANDERWANG Spring 2017. https://t.co/XPYuPLKUVS pic.twitter.com/8yxJGWhdY9
— Alexander Wang, Inc. (@AlexanderWangNY) December 7, 2016
This weekend, Ireland’s The Independent has an item headlined “Oops! Vogue Magazine Seems to Think Ruth Negga Is British.” But that’s not entirely accurate.
Rather, in the cover story, which clearly understands that Negga was born in Ethiopia and raised in Ireland, there is at one point an awkward reference to her professional career in London:
At a time when most British exports to Hollywood have tended toward the aristocratic, this Irish-Ethiopian actress is a different kind of royalty, a “brilliant chameleon,” in the words of her friend the director Annie Ryan, fit for a world of equal rights and dissolving borders.
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