I've realised my own [rage] just immediately goes to a very emotional place – my anger can so quickly go to tears. I think I swallow it as well," she says. "I think, as women, we suppress it and that's probably why I have trouble accessing it – I've done that so much that it feels kind of foreign, like I'm not quite sure where to pull it from.
I imagine, for a man, it will force them to look back at their own behaviour, which I imagine would be – or could be – potentially very uncomfortable. But it shouldn't just be…[Sexual assault] isn't 'a woman's issue'.
Comer grew up in a place that had to fight for its voice to be heard, social injustice was the air that she breathed. Maybe there's an intention behind the resilience and fearlessness of the women she's played on stage and screen. But this connection isn't something she's considered before.
Comer brings up that line she keeps thinking about: if I'm so empowered, why am I such a coward? "That's kind of what I was speaking of the other day. That juxtaposition of, if I commit myself to this type of work, and champion this, and support this, and seek this out – how is it that I have these moments where I abandon myself?"
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