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Zazie Beetz may not be a household name, but she had an impressive turn in Joker, where she played Joaquin Phoenix’s neighbor whose fate sparked debate online and off. Before Joker, she was Domino in Deadpool 2 and starred as Van, Donald Glover’s girlfriend and his child’s mother, in the well-regarded TV series Atlanta, for which she received an Emmy nomination for her nuanced depiction of a young Black woman coping with modern-day challenges of race, motherhood and relationships. The 29-year-old rising star lives in New York, but she’s currently in Santa Fe, New Mexico, through December, while she shoots the highly anticipated Western The Harder They Fall with Idris Elba and Academy Award winner Regina King. But we don’t have to wait till Netflix releases The Harder They Fall to delight in Beetz on-screen. Busy Beetz (her name is pronounced zah-see bates) is one of the stars of the intriguing Nine Days, which has its East Coast premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The buzz meter hit high for this sci-fi allegory when it debuted earlier this year at Sundance, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting
Beetz declares her dedication to climate justice through her IGTV show, Zazie Talks Climate!
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Buzzy actress Zazie Beetz is out of this world in Nine Days. BY CONSTANCE C.R. WHITE
