Entertainment
Faithia Williams is carrying grief in public this week, and she’s doing it with a camera crew waiting in the wings. Her mother passed just days ago, on the eve of what would have been her 55th birthday celebration, and the actress has not even buried her yet. Still, she stepped back into promoting her movie, posting pictures of herself dressed like a warlord and writing that every morning feels heavy, that condolences pile up and the quiet moments hit hardest when grief decides to sit on her chest. She could have disappeared for a while. She says as much herself. But instead she chose to rise—for her mother, for the legacy she wants to leave, for the story she’s about to put on screen. The Yoruba star admits she’s grieving, that the noise feels too loud and the lights too bright, but somewhere in the middle of it she heard purpose louder than sorrow. That purpose has a name now: EFUNROYE: THE UNICORN. It’s Faithia’s first cinema debut, a project she describes as years...
