You know, maybe all the white Hollywood insiders just need to keep diversity’s name out their mouths and just yield the floor to the writers, directors, and actors of color who actually have to deal with the lack thereof.
Iconic author Stephen King took to Twitter on Tuesday and came dangerously close to traveling in the footsteps of Tim Burton, who defended the lack of non-white actors in his films by saying “Things either call for things, or they don’t,” and, more recently, filmmaker Terry Gilliam, who threw a whole hissy-fit over the prospect of Hollywood diversity.
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King got up early in the morning to weigh in on the lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominations by tweeting, “As a writer, I am allowed to nominate in just 3 categories: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay. For me, the diversity issue—as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway—did not come up.”
“That said…” he continues, “I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.”
Source: Stephen King Speaks on Diversity. Me, Ava DuVernay and Black People, in General, Need Him to Zip It
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