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1923 Star Aminah Nieves Tears Up Over Importance of Playing Teonna
For Aminah Nieves, 1923 was acold much than conscionable different job.
The histrion plays Teonna Rainwater, a Native American pistillate astatine a Catholic boarding schoolhouse successful Montana, connected the Yellowstone prequel series—but arsenic Aminah explained exclusively to E! News, she came precise adjacent to ignoring the task altogether.
"I didn't privation to bash it," Aminah revealed. "I really told my manager that I wasn't going to audition for it. It's a large load and you're opening up a batch much erstwhile you're really surviving successful what your household lived through."
The 31-year-old acknowledged that the abuses and atrocities faced by generations of Native Americans, which are brutally featured connected 1923, made it imaginable for her to prosecute her ain dreams.
"Because of their spot and due to the fact that of what they did for us," Aminah said, "I didn't person to unrecorded done that successful the aforesaid nonstop mode that they did."
She eventually made the determination to audition—and she consulted her household for guidance.
"I was speaking with my Mom a lot," Aminah said. "I astir didn't consciousness worthy capable to archer this communicative due to the fact that it's truthful important. It's scary erstwhile you're telling thing that has been a portion of you since you were conscionable a thought, since you were a small airy beam successful the cosmos. It's terrifying."
As she go entrenched successful the arduous audition process, she leaned connected that familial enactment strategy to propulsion her through—ultimately serving as her top root of inspiration.
"After the 3rd self-tape, I couldn't not bash it. I could not get that 3rd self-tape. I couldn't get done it," she explained. "I was bawling. I was like, I request to bash it, not lone for me, but I looked astatine my Mom connected the different broadside and I was like, ‘I gotta bash it for her.'"
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The first occurrence of 1923 is disposable to watercourse present connected Paramount+, with caller episodes premiering Sundays opening Jan. 1.
--Reporting by Adam Havener
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