Letitia Wright used to think 'straighter hair was better' before Black Panther
Letitia Wright used to think “straighter hair was better”. The ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ star says the Marvel franchise centring on Black superheroes helped her “embrace” her “own beauty” instead of adhering to Western standards. The 29-year-old actress told Glamour magazine’s Unfiltered video series: “I think that unfortunately, I was pulled into the belief that straighter hair was better and unfortunately I did hair processing as a kid and lost all the natural beauty of it. But then it was actually playing Shuri and having her braids and seeing everything be so celebrated in the films...