The 'Westworld' actress opens up about keeping things as neutral as possible throughout Ripley's formative years since she does not want the 19-year-old's sex to define how she identifies.
- August 21, 2020
AceShowbiz - Thandie Newton used her daughter Ripley as a "bit of an experiment" to test her views on gender.
The "Westworld" actress told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper she didn't want her now-19-year-old daughter's sex to define how she identified, so tried to keep things as neutral as possible throughout her formative years.
"My daughter was a bit of an experiment," the "Mission: Impossible 2" star admitted. "When she was born, I just had a very powerful sense that I didn't want her gender (to be) the first stop on how she identified herself."
She explained, "If people said, 'Oh, she's a sweet little boy,' I wouldn't challenge them, and I used neutral colors that I happened to love as opposed to exclusively pink."
Ripley is one of Thandie's three children with her "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" writer and director husband Ol Parker.
