Ellen Pompeo Calls Out Magazine Mid-Interview for the lack of diversity in the Room
Ellen Pompeo Calls Out Magazine Mid-Interview for Not 'Enough Color' in the Room (Video) https://t.co/NhImvzFJOb pic.twitter.com/XdEaryf37z
- TheWrap (@TheWrap) November 20, 2018
Ellen Pompeo had some criticisms for Porter magazine while she and fellow actresses Gabrielle Union, Gina Rodriguez and Emma Roberts sat down for a roundtable discussion for the publication’s annual “Women in Television” issue.
Pompeo was happy to be included in the conversation, but disappointed with the lack of diversity she saw within the crew’s ranks and told the magazine as much mid-interview.
“This day has been incredible, and there’s a ton of women in the room. But, I don’t see enough color. And I didn’t see enough color when I walked in the room today. And I had a meeting with a director of another endorsement project that I’m doing.”
“As caucasian people, it’s our job, it’s our task, it’s our responsibility to make sure that we speak up in every single room we walk into. That this is not OK and that we can all do better. It’s our job because we’ve created the problem.”
1) White people sometimes ask me how they can be an ally. @EllenPompeo puts on a master class in how to be one.
2) @itsgabrielleu’s facial expressions are a whole ass mood.
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- Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) November 20, 2018
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