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Breaking Baz: ‘Rye Lane’ BAFTA Nominee Vivian Oparah Says The “Trajectory Of A Black Female Actress Is Very Different To That Of Everyone Else”
Rye Land BAFTA nominee Vivian Oparah says black female actors “are on a different trajectory” to others.
Vivian Oparah is aware of the spotlight on her following her BAFTA Film Awards nomination for her breakthrough performance in Searchlight’s romance movie Rye Lane, but she feels it’s imperative that she “stay grounded” because it’s a more disparate path towards stardom for Black actresses. Raine Allen-Miller ’s debut feature Rye Lane, a rom-com scripted by Nathan Byron and Tom Melia and set in South London, sees Oparah playing opposite David Jonsson ( Industry, Murder is Easy) as strangers who have a chance encounter in a gender-neutral toilet and spend the day getting to know each other. Writing was her first career arc, she jokes, “when I was literally a kid, when I was ten.” While she was appearing in a junior production of Snow White, gleefully playing the Wicked Witch, she and a friend wrote a book called Roxie and Dynamite, about two girls who were adopted and left to their own devices by the mother.
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