“Or how about True Detective? I never heard anyone go, “Is it going to be Amy Adams or Gabrielle Union?” for that show. I didn’t hear one black girl’s name on those lists. Not one. Literally everyone in town was up for that part, unless you were black. And I haven’t read the script, but something tells me if Gabrielle Union were Colin Farrell’s wife, it wouldn’t change a thing. And there are almost no black women in film. You can go to whole movies and not see one black woman. They’ll throw a black guy a bone. OK, here’s a black guy. But is there a single black woman in Interstellar? Or Gone Girl? Birdman?The Purge? Neighbors? I’m not sure there are. I don’t remember them. I go to the movies almost every week, and I can go a month and not see a black woman having an actual speaking part in a movie. That’s the truth.”in light of a lot of other really fucking important things involving race, I’m sure no one really wants to hear what a famous person has to say about famous person bullshit but I found this essay really interesting.
when he gets it right he gets it right
yeah. read the thing.
‘Top Five’ Filmmaker Chris Rock Pens Blistering Essay on Hollywood’s Race Problem: “It’s a White Industry” – Hollywood Reporter
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