" Forspoken's tagline is 'Find your fight'," she said. I asked Balinska, beyond people's projections and assumptions about the character, what her vision was for Frey. Parrish: To examine Forspoken's Blackness, we have to start with Frey.But unintentional or not, there are elements to its plot, reinforced by Balinska's phenomenal acting, that made me go "holy shit, this is Black as hell." It doesn't seem like it, and I don't think Square Enix is trying to market it like that. Wonder what the difference is there? In fact, a lot of Forspoken's plot - despite the fact that apparently no Black people wrote it - touched on very specific Black issues that deeply resonated with me and resolved them, at least somewhat, in a very satisfying way. The Last of Us' Ellie is just as vulgar and acerbic, but she has no shortage of people willing to die for her. In real life or fake, a Black woman's behavior is given this level of scrutiny that just doesn't exist for other people and characters. It's a song and dance very familiar to me.
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