Hollywood's identity crisis: Actors, writers and producers warn of 'reverse racism' in the film industry which has created a 'toxic' climate for anyone who is a white, middle-age man

Daily Mail ^ | 7/11/20 | Caroline Graham

[Libloather]

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Shaken by #MeToo, paralysed by Covid-19, the $50 billion film industry is finally emerging from a four-month lockdown - only to find a new and very different world, where tension is rising as surely as the thermometer.

For if the very public Black Lives Matter protests have polarised America, the silent fallout has now reached Hollywood.

A revolution is under way. White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities – racial and sexual - can be given jobs.

A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as 'more toxic than Chernobyl', with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.

The first sign came with one of the most powerful black directors in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Jordan Peele - the man behind box office hits such as Get Out and Us – stated in public that he did not want to hire a leading man who was white.

'I don't see myself casting a white dude as the lead in my movie,' Peele said. 'Not that I don't like white dudes. But I've seen that movie before.'

As one studio executive responded privately: 'If a white director said that about hiring a black actor, their career would be over in a heartbeat.' Few doubt it.

[Libloather]

Can it get any more screwed up than it already is? Maybe so.

[2banana]

The left eats its own.

[Sicon]

Hey, Hollywood d-bags, you brought this crap on yourselves. Enjoy your slide into oblivion.

[dfwgator]

Good!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Get woke, go broke

[wally_bert]

I’m glad that modern day Hollywood means nothing to me.

When tinsel town makes things worth seeing again, I will care.

We are enjoying A&E’s Nero Wolfe. One of the last good things produced by that network, if not the last.

I would love to have the music released.

[dfwgator]

At this juncture I wouldn’t shed a tear if every actor/actress was black.

Not as if I watch Hollywood’s crap anyway.

[wally_bert]

I’m glad that modern day Hollywood means nothing to me.

When tinsel town makes things worth seeing again, I will care.

We are enjoying A&E’s Nero Wolfe. One of the last good things produced by that network, if not the last.

I would love to have the music released.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

I’ve said this for so many years that it should have been my tagline. THE DEMS CANNOT SELL OUT OUR COUNTRY UNTIL THEY FIRST SELL THEMSELVES OUT!

But, my gosh, they’re trying their little hearts out!

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[wally_bert]

Sounds like public television which went that way decades back.

[Fiddlstix]

You Are 110% Right! I have the complete set on DVD. It’s Great!

[Major Matt Mason]

All you have to do is watch the TV ads being produced today to see that this article is true (it's the advertising industry, but still the same). Good luck finding a white male unless they are portrayed as weak, dimwitted dweebs being lectured to by blacks. Of course, you won't see a lot of Hispanic or Asian actors, either - the minorities are mostly one, blacks.

[wally_bert]

I should rip the DVDS and lift the tracks for a private homemade soundtrack.

So many other series that aren’t anywhere as good got releases.

[GnuThere]

That was my thought, they’re just now noticing?

[Kudsman]

Hollywood helped birth this PC Marxism. Live with your ugly baby plastic people.

[wally_bert]

I watch very few commercials.

[Zirondelle76]

Hits such as “Get Out” and “Us”?

[IndispensableDestiny]

They’ll go broke producing flicks nobody wants to see. There will be a few good ones, like “Get Out,” but not enough to sustain the industry.

[Libloather]

Don’t forget Crazy Rich Asians.