16 Reasons Gugu Mbatha-Raw Is Slaying The Scene
The star of Beyond the Lights is the best British import since Cumberbatch.
1. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, a classically trained actress from Oxford, stomped onto the scene in America when J.J. Abrams noticed her and cast her in the short-lived 2010 NBC series Undercovers.
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2. She was a badass spy in the vein of Abrams' previous serious Alias.
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3. So she got to stun in flawless dresses at galas while doing "sexpionage."
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The show really tried to make "sexpionage" happen. It didn't.
4. She even stunned Boris Kodjoe with her low-key slaying.
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5. Gugu was stunting in white on white on white long before Olivia Pope.
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6. She even slaughtered that iconic Alias Super Bowl episode scene.
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7. Her breakthrough film role was in Belle (2013), a game-changing romance about a mix-raced woman in the Jane Austen era.
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8. She picked the role of Belle because she cares about the representations of women and race in film.
10. Gugu's latest movie is Gina Prince-Bythewood's Beyond the Lights, where she beautifully plays Noni Jean, a damaged pop star looking for redemption.
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11. She can also sing and she's amazing in "Masterpiece," a music video tied to the film's release.
12. She gives you "she's so lucky, she's a star but she cry cry cries in her lonely heart" better than Britney Spears.
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13. She just quietly slays while sipping champagne.
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14. She slithers about a banquet table like she's Voldermort's fucking Horcrux.
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15. She frolics about the beach and watches every Nicholas Sparks movie drown from how much she is slaying the romance movie game.
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16. And last not but least, she put the final nail in the print industry’s coffin with this mind-blowing, never-to-be-topped cover of Elle.
