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Screen Actor's Guild Report on Diversity in Hollywood

Oct 27, 2009 15:08

The Screen Actor's Guild released statistics today confirming waht we already know: "Minorities, seniors and female actors have achieved few gains in recent years in the number of film and TV roles they receive."

The breakdown of film and TV roles for 2008 was:

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sidepocket_pro October 27 2009, 22:21:14 UTC

Good. Hopefully those kinds of "there are ton of "x" group of actors in America" arguments will stop or at least be left for the crazies I can deal with on YouTube.

P.S. Han, the film director, will be back in NYC in December and I will interview her for Racebending.com

She is also finishing editing the movie as I type. =D

livvylove October 27 2009, 23:18:53 UTC

Latinos are the largest Minority in the United States but wow we are severely underrepresented. I wonder how many of those are not negative stereotypes too.

fadedelegance October 27 2009, 23:27:03 UTC

God, this makes me angry--both as a non-racist caucasian AND as a woman.

It's all about the perfectly healthy white men. Sorry, ladies. Sorry, minorities. Sorry, those of you with disabilities. You're just not as interesting or important. People don't care about you as much. /sarcasm

livvylove October 27 2009, 23:39:05 UTC

take away the perfectly healthy and you will be right. There are so many overweight white males on TV with their perfect trophy housewives.

fadedelegance October 28 2009, 13:21:20 UTC

Good point! I should have remembered that because it's equally insulting. Because we women are only good for being some guy's mindless, pretty little prize. >_<

Fuck yourself, Hollywood.

jordan_the_kid October 28 2009, 00:54:23 UTC

Hollywood role statistics greatly differ from the actually it. For example, the population of my home state by ethnicity

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jordan_the_kid October 28 2009, 01:08:51 UTC

:looks between diagram and recent study:

Um... uh...

Okay... there appears to be some INCONSISTENCY going on here.

Can anyone please explain to my WHY??? Or is that a rhetorical question?

hoyvinglavin64 October 28 2009, 01:30:29 UTC

The breakdown is veruuy discouraging from a gender standpoint, but not as much from a racial standpoint. Outside of the disproportionately low percentage of Hispanic actors, the rest of the percentages are fairly close to the general US population percentages.

Now, if they actually looked at the types of roles (leads v. extras; maybe heroes v. villains though that would be iffy for some movies), then we might get to the real racial problems in Hollywood.