Ncuti Gatwa, Barbie and Doctor
Who actor, coming out:
“I’ve experienced racism my whole life, and while I always
believed in myself, always knew [racists] were stupid and uneducated, I guess
it did misinform my view of how the world works. It makes you think everyone
has that opinion and you’ll constantly have to fight through life—then you
learn that you don’t: you can find a tribe, you can find your people. I
remember being at Manchester Pride, going through the streets with all my boys,
shaking my cha-chas, living it up, when I saw this woman who looked exactly
like my auntie. She wasn’t—but I knew she was Rwandan [and] I had never met
another queer Rwandan person before. I thought I was the only one in the
world.”
You aren’t the only one, Ncuti Gatwa, and you aren’t the last one either.
We are everywhere, and every time one of us comes out, it strengthens all of
us, so Welcome Out.
Gatwa has never publicly disclosed his sexuality before but
in an Elle magazine profile he mentioned being distracted by one of his
co-stars in director Greta Gerwig’s Barbie:
“There was a time when I was talking to Greta and I turned
around and Ryan Gosling was looking at me and his eyes were so blue that I
just… fell over. I just drowned in his eyes.”
I could say the same about Ncuti; he’s a cute little nugget.
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