Posted on 05/06/2023 11:38:50 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss, an Academy Award–winning actor best known for his role in the Jaws, said in an interview that the new diversity rules imposed by the Oscars for films to be eligible for the “Best Picture” award “make me vomit.”
“They make me vomit,” Dreyfuss told Margaret Hoover on Firing Line which aired Friday night on PBS. “This is an art form. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.”
New policies enacted by the Oscrars in 2024 will see film award eligibility dependent upon meeting two of four stipulated diversity benchmarks. One, for instance, mandates a third of a movie cast must be comprised of “an underrepresented group.”
The actor also discussed his decades-long commitment to improving civics education. In 2006, the star created the Dreyfuss Civics Initiative aimed at revitalizing national awareness of government and politics.
“I think we’re in the endgame right now,” he told PBS. “We could let slip the greatest idea for governance ever devised, and we won’t even know that it happened.”
“I still can’t really wrap my head around the fact that people confuse being exposed to an opposing view on any subject with being a traitor or with being a subversive.”
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I would say white people are currently an underrepresented group besides this being a racist stipulation.
He’s gonna need a bigger boat but the crab people will just try and sink him for not blabbering the cool and liberal claptrap.
Very few are waking up which makes this headline news.
Pretty soon studios will have a sign “No whites need apply.”
Most everything Hollywood makes these days makes me want to vomit.
It is kind of fun to watch them destroy themselves over something so petty and stupid.
Maybe we should just save our show money to give to pro life causes instead.
“An alien new to the planet would have to conclude that, most people on Earth are blacks and Hispanics.”
Well, actually that may be true, altho Asians could skew the numbers
Thank you Mr. Dreyfus. Odd I would say that. But, there it is. An opposing view point does not equal H8!
I love to see liberals eating their own. Haha!
What happened to Mr. Liberal? Is he a racist now?
He voted for and advocated for liberal policies of every form for 50
Years. Suck it up buttercup
When it comes to historical dramas, where they feel they have to replace the historical white character, with a person of color, I won't watch them. Hollywood has always taken poetic license with historical facts in their movies. Now they've outdone themselves. When will they make a Patton movie with Will Smith as General Patton? You know something similar is coming.
I don’t care much about wokeness in Hollywood. I care a lot about woke med schools, law schools, universities and secondary schools. I care more about whether my car mechanic has been hired on the basis of something other than competence than I care about whether a black woman is cast as Cleopatra.
Good to see there is someone in Hollyperverse who realizes the truth.
Q: What are things I could give a steaming crap about, Alex?
Whatever, Dick.
YOUR people are the ones who did this.
Instead of trying to get attention in the media, why doesn’t he try Kirk Cameron’s approach. Write a book aimed at young people and then go on library tours.
Only took him 45 years to wake up. In THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977) he plays an aspiring actor who’s aghast to learn that the director wants him to play Shakespeare’s Richard III as a drag queen — but he tries to do it anyway, and it’s hilariously awful.
Dreyfuss is probably realizing he’d be burned at the stake by his Hollywood friends if he gave that performance today.
Hey Hooper, we're gonna need a bigger boat ...
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
“Communism? Already been tried. Fails every time.”
It’s sort of “working” here (just ask the Jan 6 POW’s) and I’m getting impatient waiting for the public to get a clue.
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