Thandiwe Newton in Westworld season 3 episode 2 (2020) dir. Richard J. Lewis

THANDIWE NEWTON photographed by Hasse Nielsen for The Edit (January 2017)

THANDIWE NEWTON 📷 Naomi Kaltman, 2006

Westworld 2.10 "The Passenger"

Thandie Newton for Marie Claire Magazine, May 2019

The [Maeve] character’s arc hit close to home for Newton, who is a survivor of sexual abuse. One experience, which occurred when she was 22 and which she’s brought up in interviews over the years, involved an unnamed male director. He filmed her audition, during which he asked her to touch herself intimately—something that she agreed to because there was a female casting director in the room. Years later, when Newton was in her 30s, she discovered the director had kept the audition tape and played it at poker games for other Hollywood insiders. When she began speaking out about this and other far worse abuse she has suffered, she was either ignored or disbelieved. And at the time it may have even cost her work. “I was very aware of the climate of sexual abuse that was going on around me, so I became the person you didn’t want to hire because I would call it out,” she says. “In retrospect, I can see many instances where not only would I not be employed, but other actors and actresses would not necessarily want to be associated with me.” Even people who were supposed to be on her side often told her to sit down.

Chris Pine & Thandiwe Newton All the Old Knives (2022) dir. Janus Metz

THANDIWE NEWTON Mikael Jansson × British Vogue › 2021

THANDIWE NEWTON by Mikael Jansson for British Vogue, May 2021.

The only thing wrong with the seven deadly sins is that there aren’t more of them.

— Thandiwe Newton as Maeve Millay in Westworld: Season One

"I want you to break into hell with me and rob the gods blind."

Thandiwe Newton & Rodrigo Santoro as Maeve Millay & Hector Escaton in Westworld season 1 (2016).

Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe Newton "Reminiscence" (2021) premiere in London | August 11, 2021

Thandiwe Newton as Kate Kennedy RETREAT (2011) dir. Carl Tibbetts

Thandiwe Newton as Maeve Millay in Westworld — 4.01 "The Auguries"

Thandiwe Newton by Hasse Nielsen PORTER MAGAZINE, 2017.

We’re seeing beautiful things happen in the world that are completely counter to the shitty things. People are so tender. All the negative sides of being terrified… on the flip side, look at our creativity, our courage. We have to keep looking at those things. Because a lot of the time, it’s where we choose to look.

Chris Pine & Thandiwe Newton All the Old Knives (2022) dir. Janus Metz