In the interview, Newton said that 2000's "Charlie's Angels" is "one of the biggest movies [she] didn't end up doing.".

You’re going to think it’s like yellow lines down a road, and you pull back and you realize it’s the stitching, because the denim is so tight on your a-- it’s going to look like tarmac,'" she recalled. "I was like, 'Oh, I don’t think we’re going to go down this road together.'".

Thandie Newton passed on starring in 'Charlie's Angels' due to troubling encounters with the director and studio head.

"Then the head of the studio — I had a meeting with her, and she said, 'Look, I don’t mean to be politically incorrect, but the character as written and you playing the role, I just feel like we’ve got to make sure that it’s believable,'" the actress remembers being told.

What changes would you have to make?' She’s like, 'Well, you know, the character, as written, she’s been to university and is educated.' I’m like, 'I’ve been to university.

The Emmy winner said that Pascal suggested a scene in a bar featuring Newton would climbing on top of a table and "shaking her booty.".

"She’s basically reeling off these stereotypes of how to be more convincing as a Black character," said the star. "Everything she said, I was like, 'Nah, I wouldn’t do that.' She’s like, 'Yeah, but you’re different.

Amy Pascal, former head of Sony Pictures