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“Skin” is a fictionalized retelling of the true and terrible story of Sandra Laing, a South African woman whose race was classified and reclassified by the government, then in the mad grip of apartheid. Born in 1955 to officially white parents, Ms. Full Article at The New York Times
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There is a pivotal scene in "Skin," a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story plucked out of the mess of South Africa's apartheid, when young Sandra Laing's father shouts the good news to the family -- "She's white again." Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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Until 1994, South Africa's system of Apartheid forbade people of different "races" to use the same stores, to attend the same schools or to reside under the same roof. Full Article at News Blaze
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The corrosive legacy of South Africa's apartheid system is still being felt, 15 years after that country's first free elections and its move to majority rule. Full Article at Huffington Post
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If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary lunacy, it's the one dramatized in Anthony Fabian's straight-ahead biopic of Sandra Laing, the visibly black daughter born in the 1950s to... Full Article at Village Voice
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That's why I'm scared ... A lot of people said, 'Why don't you just copy her?' But I don't work like that. I learned her accent and tried to invest my own imagination and hope for the best. It was a risk.
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In many ways Sandra lived in a bubble
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I was doing a white Afrikaner accent, and that accent varies with the kind of English that is spoken
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She was moved and hugged me ... She said we told her story very well.
