"If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia, or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear. And when I got to Australia a lot of people did not know who Laurence Fishburne was. I was a big guy walking around with no hair on my face and no hair on my head. And most people assumed I was Maori back in the late 1990s.
"There was a definite vibe. No one called me a name or any of that stuff. I could sense -- I wouldn't even say it was hostility -- but there was a wariness, an unease. When I came back to do the next two movies, after the first film came out, everyone knew me and it all changed."
| That's a Laurence Fishburne quote from Phillip McCarthy's Syndey Morning Herald article "Of black pride, and prejudice"
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