maybe you just watched and remember the movies where she's paired with white guys only?
movies where her love interest is a man of color:
Takers, The Heart Specialist, Blackout, Premium, Out of the furnace (where yes, her love interest is Christian Bale but she ended up with Forest Whitaker's character) Drumline
In the Nina Simone's biobic her love interest is black also.
She also was cast to play Don Cheadle’s love interest in his current work in progress movie about Miles Davis (she was cast to play his first wife) she had accepted that part years ago but had to give it up because she was pregnant last year (couldn't play a dancer with the baby bump and all)
either way, how many mainstream movies we currently have with a black male character as the lead and the one with a romance? Just answer to that question and you understand why it seems that most of her onscreen love interests are white: because the main male character in most of the mainstream movies are white.
That said, interracial couples are still rare in hollywood. There are actors like Will Smith who rarely get to play the love interest of a white girl because hollywood is stuck in that poc must only be paired with other poc mentality.
In light of that alone, the fact that Zoe gets to play the love interest of white characters too - and they don't give those roles to a white actress by default - in mainstream movies is important in perspective.
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