“Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to...” — Ricky Whittle Quote

Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

No one remembers the runner-up!

If things are said maliciously, and they're meant to hurt, then that's the sort of thing we need to try and stamp out.

I want to act in films and TV drama, so that's where I'm aiming to be, and I'm not going to let anything distract me or turn my head until I get there.

As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it seems.

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

If a white filmmaker is going to tell a story about a Black family, then because they get all the opportunities that they get, it needs to be in a way that is respectful and fully ears open and listening and willing to change what they had thought, because our experiences are different.

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.