Ashleigh Murray, who played Josie McCoy on 'Riverdale,' reprises her role in the new CW show 'Katy Keene' about 20-somethings pursuing their dreams in NYC. It felt very close-to-home.
On Easter Sunday 1991, Ashleigh Murray gave her first performance. Her mother had taught her “probably some gospel song”and asked her to sing it in front of relatives Murray can no longer recall. What she remembers is that they were far from charmed by the idea of 3-year-old Murray’s show. They raised their eyebrows. They crossed their arms. They waited for her to be terrible. From then on, “any time I had to sing in front of anyone, I got the worst stage fright,” Murray says.
Despite Murray’s newfound success, self-acceptance is something she’s still working on; embracing it was her personal goal for last year. Moving from Vancouver, wherehas helped. Murray was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but considers New York City, where she lived for more than 11 years, home. Filming was a trip down memory lane. Her first day of shooting took place a 10-minute walk from her first studio apartment.
“I am well-rounded because of them. I retreat to them for advice, for support, for any sort of reflection of myself,” she says. “They also give me permission to be angry. To be upset. To be hurt. We all know the stigma of an angry black woman, but the reality is anger is human nature. It’s not gender specific, and it’s not race specific. I can be angry the same way that anyone else can be, and my anger shouldn’t be modified or monitored or belittled simply because of the face it’s coming out of.
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