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That Harewood, during his first psychotic episode, heard the voice of Martin Luther King telling him to head to Camden, north London, at 3am on a mission to close the spiritual gap between good and evil has everything to do with the post-racial vision of the famous “I have a dream” speech. So the first of those is, you spoke about how, in your younger years, as you were starting out, the reviews would refer to you as a black actor. A groundbreaking account of the effects of everyday racism on the identity and mental health of Black British men, explored through the lens of Homeland and Supergirl actor David Harewood’s personal experience.
In 2008, he played Major Simon Brooks in The Palace; he also appeared (that December) on Celebrity Mastermind, with specialist subject Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. So you're always going to have some people resist, you're always going to have some people have a problem with it. You feel his pain as he uncovers how he was treated not just as a mentally ill patient but also as a black man . But you know, we're seeing this now in Lord of the Rings, you know, we're seeing people kind of complaining.I am now going to find the documentary of David's story, as it was mentioned in the Book, and it sounded like such an important journey, and examines mental illness in Britain, particularly David's journey in acting and becoming ill and hospitalised with psychosis. In the book you spoke about feeling a sense of not belonging in the white space, but also that when you moved out of Birmingham and to London, out of drama school, you also felt that a little bit in the Black space. That section of the community only wants to talk about it's glory, and it doesn't want to engage on the more uncomfortable subjects of Empire - slavery, oppression, subjugation, brutality - they don't really want to engage on those subjects. In 2022, Harewood voiced Destruction of the Endless in Act III of Audible's full-cast audiobook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic, The Sandman. One of the best memoirs I have read about race, identity, mental illness, psychosis, resilience and recovery.
Maybe I Don’t Belong Here is a harrowing read and one I’ll never forget, not least because in the wake of the race report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, a shared story is a lifeline for my people. This is another one but does not have the power or erudition that I have noticed in my consumption of recent reads.I also suffer with mental illness, and I found this book so raw and emotional, I think this book is going to help so many people, and it leaves you with a lot to think about. He remains unflinchingly honest when discussing his encounters with racism in Britain and how this largely contributed to his eventual breakdown and shattered sense of self. And I think that's Increasingly going to be a problem, because when you don't talk about it, that's when people feel even more marginalised.
Taking into account your kind of experience growing up not seeing someone like you in entertainment, does the idea that young boys, young girls might see you on screen and not feel a question of can I belong here? He was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, [36] spent time on the Whittington Hospital psychiatric ward, and was prescribed the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine. Granted it’s a short book (235 pages) but I still stopped to look up some of the - OK all of the Birmingham places mentioned, and a few London ones. It is incredibly interesting how he dissects the cause of his psychosis, from the Socio-environmental to the racial discrimination he experienced from a young age.That whilst I can wave that flag, and cheer, and stand in line, and sort of bow down; in the eyes of many I'll never truly be part of that club. But also as an artist, you know to be given the responsibility to play central leading characters, which is something that I struggled with here.
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