"It’s very hard to complain about someone saying you’re in Tina Fey’s immediate family. But I do think it’s a little unfair that there’s never any debate about whether there’s room for Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Aziz Ansari. But with women, it’s like, OK, Kristen Wiig is having a moment now, we’re done, we’ll put the rest of them on the backburner. And that’s just ridiculous."
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MINDY KALING, on a particularly frustrating, unfair hardship for women in the entertainment industry, in The Guardian.
(Read the full interview here.)
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This chart reveals that the overwhelming majority of acting gigs (67%) are meant for White people:
This one shows how the overwhelming majority of lead roles (81.9%) are played by White actors:
And this one shows that most lead roles (73%) are filled by male actors:
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"In the Bond movie I had my hair dyed an impossible yellow color, and that became my motivation in a lot of scenes: I had a secret subtext, which I never discussed with anybody. Every time I had a scene with somebody I’d be thinking: What do you think of my hair? Do you like my hair? Do you like what they did to me? That they made me look like this? So next time you see the movie, every time I torture somebody I’m really thinking, You see what they did to me with this hair?"
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Christopher Walken, on his hair in A View to A Kill.
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"I’d not only get in the cab,” he says, “but I’d take the taxi driver out of the car, hostage. The taxi, jump out while it was moving, jump onto a pedal bike that was just past the door as I got on it, and then get onto a plane — on the wing — land on top of Sony Studios, slide through the air conditioning, and land in the office."
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What Idris Elba would do if he got asked to go to the Sony Pictures offices to discuss the role of James Bond.
Perfect. Human.
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Oh, I would SO watch a James Bond movie starring Idris!
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"I didn’t really want to get into this, but here I am, someone with firsthand knowledge of how Major Motion Picture casting works, and I agree with Sarah 100%.
If someone like Carey Mulligan approaches a director and wants to audition for a role, she gets to audition or (more likely) gets an offer. If that role was intended for a person of color, and the director happens to like her, he will approach the producer/studio and ask for the part to be changed. It’s not Carey Mulligan’s fault if they change the role, but it is her fault to even go after the role in the first place. I will tell you this - if a role is known to be for a person of color, it is BLATANTLY in the script, as well as in the casting breakdown (no PC language in Hollywood, people). If Carey read that and ignored it, that is exceptionally shitty. She probably doesn’t realize how shitty it is, but this is a good lesson for her and the inherent white privilege associated with movie casting. So if she is offered a role which she didn’t actively pursue, then it’s not her fault. But she did actively pursue so yes, she is at fault. (And I said it before but I’ll say it again - Carey Mulligan has her fair shares of offers for movie roles. Not taking this one wouldn’t have kept her from eating. That is not a valid argument for someone in her position.)"
— Hollywood Fetus: (via glossylalia)
(Source: thegirlwiththefinchertattoo, via glossylalia)
sarah-fincher:
Seriously, if you’re a white actress — even if you’re a very talented white actress! — and you read about a part that is possibly complex, intriguing, and challenging, and it’s specifically written for a nonwhite actress, your first reaction shouldn’t be to take it for yourself. That’s called unexamined privilege. Check it, for fuck’s sake. Or maybe read the statistics on how many major supporting roles (to say nothing of lead roles) are doled out to nonwhite actresses in heavily publicized films like this one. Hint: it’s not a lot.
I don’t understand why White actors go ahead and audition for roles specifically written as POC. Why would you fucking do that? Are there really not enough roles out there for White people?
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