- “Supergirl” actor Mehcad Brooks opened up to INSIDER about how playing James Olsen on The CW show has made him “a more complete, inclusive, and better person.”
- The 37-year-old elaborated and said that specifically during season one, he realized “that I was sexist and that every man in America likely is sexist because we have a foundation of gender inequality and we come from that world.”
- “‘Supergirl’ has really made me take a step back and say, ‘Wow, even as an African American, there are certain things that I do enjoy from the perspective of male privilege,'” Brooks told us.
- Brooks believes that “we’re on the precipice of overturning something really big here” and hopes that the series “can get into people’s homes and subvert some of the bad ideas that we hold so close.”
Mehcad Brooks says that starring as James Olsen on The CW’s “Supergirl” helped him realize that he was sexist, and hopes that the show can encourage other people to reevaluate their beliefs.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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