Thandie Newton reclaims original spelling of her first name, Thandiwe: ‘I’m taking back what’s mine’

Westworld star Thandie Newton has revealed that the unique spelling of her first identify is ‘Thandwie’, which was “carelessly” dropped from her first appearing credit score “Flirting” and, subsequently, each function since.

The Emmy Award winner, born to Zimbabwean mom and English father in London, introduced she can be together with the ‘W’ as soon as extra in her stage identify, which suggests beloved in Shona language of Zimbabwe.

“That’s my name. It’s always been my name. I’m taking back what’s mine,” Newton instructed British Vogue in her Could 2021 cowl interview.

The 48-year-old actor, whose credit embrace movies like “Mission: Impossible 2”, “Crash” and “The Pursuit of Happyness”, additionally addressed the backlash she confronted in 2016, after revealing that she was a sufferer of sexual misconduct, a yr earlier than the #MeToo motion in Hollywood.

She recalled firing her publicist, who requested her to cease speaking in regards to the abuse, as a result of it was “not good for your reputation”. “There’s a moment where the ghost of me changed, you know, and it was then, it was 16,” she mentioned of the incident.

Newton mentioned she suffered from publish traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD) after she confronted abuse by the hands of a director.

“He derailed me from myself utterly. I was traumatized. It was a kind of PTSD for sure. I was so distraught and appalled that a director had abused a young actress, and that it was happening elsewhere, minors getting abused and how f***** up it was. I was basically waiting for someone to come along and say, ‘Well, what shall we do about this?'” she recounted.