In
The Walking Dead she plays a katana-wielding badass who drags two
jawless zombies around an apocalyptic wasteland on a chain.
The 37 year-old walking dead star sat down with DuJour to talk about herself and the role she plays...See more stunning photos after the cut...
she said:
'I
was raised in Africa and I had never seen anything like it, women with
AK-47s, dressed very hip and looking formidable. I was keen to one day
pursue that story and put it on the stage.'
The
actress and playwright was born in Iowa in the US but was raised in
Zimbabwe from the age of five, when her parents moved back there after
the country gained its independence.
After
high school she returned to the US to go to college, but in 2007 she
once again headed to Africa, this time to Liberia where she worked with a
non-profit organization, and it was there her characters began to take
shape.
'I met amazing women who told me unbelievable things,' she said. 'They inspired a lot of the characters you see on the stage.'
Although
the second Liberian civil war - which claimed the lives of up to
300,000 people - officially ended in 2003, Gurira insisted the
atrocities are far from ended, and not just there.
'Unfortunately, these are very current issues,' she said. 'And it is appalling that they are very current issues.
'One
would think we'd have figured them out by now, but we haven't and we
still live in a world where women are disproportionately victimized,
attacked, put into inhumane circumstances and left to feel perpetually
unsafe. This is a huge global human rights issue that has not been
resolved.'
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