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\"Careful what you do, everybody...Because you might find yourself f------ over a little brown girl at the beginning of a career, when no one knows who she is and no one gives a f---. She might turn out to be Thandie Newton,\" the actress said.

One story pertaining to the mistreatment she said she endured was on her decision to pass on the 2000 \"Charlie's Angels\" reboot.

\"[T]he director said to me, 'The first shot...You're going to think it's like yellow lines down a road, and you pull back and you realize it's the stitching, because the denim is so tight on your a-- to look like tarmac.' I was like, 'Oh, I don't think we’re going to go down this road together,'\" Newton said in the interview.

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