Theron hopes daughters are represented in Hollywood

NEW YORK » Charlize Theron says she’s making choices as a producer and actor to ensure her “two small, beautiful African American daughters” will feel represented on-screen.

The Oscar winner said it can be hard for Black children to “kind of imagine the possibilities” when so few films and television series are centered on characters that look like them.

“I was raised during the Apartheid era in South Africa,” Theron said in an interview promoting her action thriller “The Old Guard,” which hits Netflix on Friday. “So, I come with a lot of that baggage already. I was part of a system that I as a white person benefited from in South Africa. And that’s a tremendous amount of guilt that I carried, and still carry my entire life. I’m in therapy over it. It would be impossible for me to not have that somehow be rectified in what I can do in my job as a producer, as an actor — and the responsibility that I take for what I put out there for not only my two young girls, but for young girls out there in general.”

Prince Harry addresses institutional racism

LONDON » Prince Harry stressed the need to tackle institutional racism during a speech he recorded for the ceremony for the Diana Awards, a charity for young people set up to honor his late mother.

In a video message shown in the virtual ceremony, the Duke of Sussex said that “institutional racism has no place in our societies, yet it is still endemic.”

“My wife said recently that our generation and the ones before us haven’t done enough to right the wrongs of the past,” he said. “I, too, am sorry — sorry that we haven’t got the world to the place that you deserve it to be.”

The speech came on what would have been the 59th birthday of Princess Diana, the prince’s mother. She died in a Paris car crash in 1997, when Harry was 12.