Sunday, January 21, 2018

Black Mirror star Aldis Hodge paints a portrait of divided America; Guardian, January 20, 2018

Lucy Rock, Guardian; 

Black Mirror star Aldis Hodge paints a portrait of divided America

"Despite Hollywood’s increasing awareness of diversity issues, a University of Southern California study published last summer of 900 popular films from 2007 to 2016 showed that almost nothing had changed in terms of representation on screen around gender, race, LGBTQ status and disability. The pool of directors proved even less diverse.

Hodge said people should think about inclusion rather than diversity, which “has been turned into a diminutive tool that is regressive”.
“They say, ‘We need some diversity – throw a black guy in there, or a Latin girl.’ They still don’t look at these people as normal. They don’t understand the normalcy of walking around America and seeing all folk integrating naturally.”"

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