Ellen Pompeo Calls Out Magazine for Lack of Inclusive Crew During Video Interview

Indie Wire ^ | November 19. 2018 | Zack Sharf

[EdnaMode]

Ellen Pompeo took a stand in an on camera interview for Net-A-Porter, calling out the publication during an actress roundtable interview. The “Grey’s Anatomy” star appeared in the video interview opposite Gina Rodriguez, Gabrielle Union, and Emma Roberts. When the conversation turned to representation in front of and behind the camera, Pompeo took a moment to address the elephant in the room and advocate for more inclusive sets of all shapes and sizes.

“This day has been incredible, and there’s a ton of women in the room. But I don’t see enough color,” Pompeo said about the Net-A-Porter set. “I didn’t see enough color when I walked in the room today.”

“I had a meeting with a director of another endorsement project that I’m doing where I said, ‘You know, when I show up on set, I would like to see the crew look like the world that I walk around in everyday,'” the actress continued. “I think it’s up to all productions to make sure that your crew looks like the world we see. As Caucasian people, it’s our job. It’s our task. It’s our responsibility to make sure we speak up in every single room we walk into [and say] this is not ok and that we can all do better. It’s our job. We’ve created the problem.”

Pompeo has been one of the most outspoken actresses when it comes to advocating for inclusive film and television sets and gender parity. The actress made headlines earlier this year for coming forward about her fight to get the salary she deserved after leading “Grey’s Anatomy” for over 14 seasons. Following her comments about the Net-A-Porter set, Pompeo’s co-interviews saluted her with a cheers.

“Grey’s Anatomy” is currently in its 15th season on ABC. Watch the Net-A-Porter video interview in its entirety below. Pompeo’s comment begins around the 16-minute mark.

[dfwgator]

Oh, I’m sure plenty of the help in their house is black and latino.

[FrdmLvr]

“As Caucasian people, it’s our job. It’s our task. It’s our responsibility to make sure we speak up in every single room we walk into [and say] this is not ok and that we can all do better. It’s our job. We’ve created the problem.”

Why? And who made you the boss of white people?

[Yaelle]

Actual stats show gays to be 4% of the population but Americans, when asked, estimate gays at 24% of the population. And on tv and in movies gays are 30% of the population and in 90% of the shows.

[Yaelle]

Not that many people of color in her hoods. She needs to donate those manses to darker people. Or else she is racist.

[Rummyfan]

Perhaps she's willing to give up her job for a person "of color".

Yes, Ms Pompeo, put your money where your mouth is.

Gawd these people are insufferable.

[ConservativeStatement]

I knew that was you even before I read the user name. :-)

[Rummyfan]

The world she says “I walk around in every day” isn’t the real world. Not even close. Hollywood and indeed the entire media are just making up their own world, and trying to make all of us believe we live in it.

One of the black actors in her show got fired for calling another (openly homosexual) cast member a 'faggot'. So homosexuality trumps skin color?

[peggybac]

Guess what, Ellen. Your crew, from the producers to the grips, are majority white. You seem to be just fine cashing checks season after season after season.....

[CAluvdubya]

Help me out....what’s Net-A-porter?

[alternatives?]

I wonder if she would have the same concerns if she were headed into surgery?

[goodnesswins]

WHO?

[hanamizu]

“As Caucasian people, it’s our job. It’s our task.”

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Ah, the white man’s burden.

[Redbob]

"It is up to white people to not step into a room if there isn’t “enough color” in the room."

Hey, white IS a color!
LOL

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Boring Libtard actress from one of the worst shows on TV.

Amazing how these clowns get so full of themselves....

[JayGalt]

Thanks Yaelle. It makes my blood boil. People like this don’t really value anyone but themselves. They are using people as accessories to proclaim how noble and superior their sensibilities are.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Dear Ellen, you can start to solve this “problem” by withdrawing from the acting profession and urging that all your potential roles be given to “people of color.”

[EdnaMode]

I hadn’t heard of it either, but here is their website. It appears to be a magazine of some kind:

https://www.net-a-porter.com/us/en/

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

She has an 8000 sq ft mansion in a gated community !!??

How much we want to bet her exclusive gated enclave is not exactly a representative cross-section of America, never mind the world???

[CaptainK]

She lives with a black man and they have 3 children. So I assume she thinks she's a special voice on the subject.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

... and from Wikipedia, she is totally puke-worthy:

"Pompeo along with Shonda Rhimes, and the leads of Rhimes' ABC Thursday line-up shows Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Kerry Washington and Viola Davis, appeared in an ad campaign for the 2016 US election supporting Hillary Clinton, comparing her to the protagonists of those series.[56] In the video, the actresses note that Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating and Meredith Grey are "brilliant" and "complex" women who fight for justice and give voice to the voiceless. Rhimes, Davis, Pompeo, and Washington each take turns speaking as they praise the presidential candidate and conclude: "Our characters are on television; the real world has Hillary Clinton." Clinton responded to the video with a tweet saying, "Talk about a power lineup. Thank you for being on this team!""