Black women have been 'over-represented' by 'negative stereotypes' in film: Naomie Harris

Naomie Harris says black women have been "over-represented" in roles with "negative stereotypes" and those are the parts she would never take up.

Talking about her role in the Oscar-winning "Moonlight", the actor said she has always tried to portray minorities in a positive manner.

Harris, 42, played Paula, a drug addict and mother to lead character Chiron (Ashton Sanders).

"I've always said that I will never play a kind of stereotypical black woman's role. So I felt as a black woman I'd been far too over-represented in the role of prostitute and crack addict and these kinds of negative stereotypes, so I said I would never play a crack addict.

"I have always said from the beginning of my career that I only want to portray positive representations of black people in general and black woman in particular. So I made that very clear to my representation from the very, very beginning so I think they were really hesitant about coming to me with this script," she said at the GQ Heroes ...