“I've always been 'other' in all the spaces that I've been in. Even whe...” — Jodie Turner-Smith Quote

“I've always been 'other' in all the spaces that I've been in. Even when I first moved to America, just the idea that I was a dark-skinned black girl from England with an accent. It's one thing to be a black girl, but it's another to be a dark black girl. I was chastised for that. I was chastised for the way I spoke.”

“I think about what I grew up seeing, what I didn't see growing up, and what it felt like when I did see someone who I thought that I could relate to, just living their life on screen.”

“It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.”

“My British accent often made me close my throat and sing from all the wrong places.”

“My accent... my father's from Cleethorpes and my mother's from Manchester and I was born in the Midlands and brought up in London, so I've got an element of that.”