WESTWORLD STAR

STUNNING Thandie Newton lists all the bad things that happen to her in Hollywood in a little black book.

And the Emmy-winning star, 47, has a warning to those who belittle, overlook or mistreat someone because of the colour of their skin.

She said: “Careful what you do, everybody, because you might find yourself f***ing over a little brown girl at the beginning of a career, when no one knows who she is and no one gives a f***.

“She might turn out to be Thandie Newton winning Emmys.”

Thandie has fought a lengthy and bitter battle against prejudice to become a successful actress.

She won a 2018 Emmy for her role as an android madam in sci-fi western series Westworld.

She also earned plaudits as a murdered slave girl, opposite Oprah Winfrey, in the film version of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved.

And she has a Bafta for the 2004 film Crash and was nominated for 2017’s Line of Duty in which she played corrupt cop Roz Huntley.

Thandie is getting the recognition now that was severely lacking as she was growing up, the daughter of a black woman and white man.

Predators

She said there was no celebration of her race and people did not want to “praise the black girl”.

The star said: “When I set out in the adult world, I was pretty young

– 16 was when I started working in movies. I had no sense of myself. One of the reasons why is because I was not considered anything.”

Thandie was born in London but raised in the Cornish town of Penzance, then went to Tring Park School for the Performing Arts where she was a star student.

Yet despite being a high achiever, she said she was not recognised for her efforts and often felt slighted.

She said: “We didn’t talk about it at the time but the damage was so done. It just made me supervulnerable to predators.

“There’s so much about not having a sense of my value.”

Thandie went on to suffer from anorexia and admitted she just wanted “to disappear”.

She also had a complicated relationship with sex.

She said: “It was like I had to give something back for being noticed. You get predators and sexual abusers, they can smell it a mile off. It’s like a shark smelling blood in the water.

“In a way, an eating disorder was just like, OK, I need to finish myself off. I need to get fully rid of myself.”

Unfortunately Thandie was trying to make her way in an industry that can treat young actresses like objects.

She explained in a lengthy interview with Vulture magazine how she had been harassed and