'Emily in Paris' Writer Pens Op-Ed Criticizing the Golden Globes Snub of 'I May Destroy You'

[shangri__la]

‘Emily In Paris’ Writer Deborah Copaken Rages At ‘I May Destroy You’s Golden Globes Snub https://t.co/qUZd3EKkFU
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) February 4, 2021
Deborah Copaken, a writer on Netflix’s Emily In Paris, has said the success of her show in the Golden Globe nominations was marred by the fact that HBO's I May Destroy You was completely

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[pornography]

"I’d spent June and July marching for racial justice through the streets of New York with my kids. I could definitely see how a show about a white American selling luxury whiteness, in a pre-pandemic Paris scrubbed free of its vibrant African and Muslim communities, might rankle."

This is such an odd thing to say. Why "march for racial justice" but knowingly write a show ignoring African and Muslim communities??? Am I missing something here? Has she previously talked about trying to be more inclusive and been shot down?

[dreamdate]

I definitely did a side-eye reading that.

[xellabelle]

Is she calling herself out lmao wtf

But in all seriousness I've seen this behaviour, it's like "I'm aware of what I am doing but I am better than this because I went to a BLM protest. I'm woke y'all"

[peddlestools]

She's in the writers room, sooooo... if she actually said something in the writers room, she sure as hell would have said she did 🤔

[judasiscariot]

it reads like she didn't realize that people would be put off by the way white people erase any trace of other cultures in their shows until AFTER the protests but the show was already written and shot, and even then her wording makes it seem like the lack of diversity is annoying at worst and not just another of millions of examples of a serious issue people have been criticising since before last year - it's very "baby's first time discovering racism"

[ginainabottle]

To me it reads like I'm not proud of that work in particular, but I had bills to pay. I know we all want to believe we'd be the change we want to see in the world, but when you get a nice gig where you're thankful to just be working, chances are you won't be making many waves in order to keep that job.