Charlotte Rampling says what many of us are thinking.
Rampling, 69, is up for the best actress prize for her role in the British drama 45 Years, from director Andrew Haigh, where she will compete against Room’s Brie Larson, Carol’s Cate Blanchett, Joy’s Jennifer Lawrence and Brooklyn’s Saoirse Ronan. Asked for her take on the current furore over all-white lists of nominees on French Radio network Europe 1 on Friday morning, the British actor did not mince her words. “It is racist to whites,” she said.
“One can never really know, but perhaps the black actors did not deserve to make the final list,” added Rampling. Asked if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should introduce quotas, a proposal which no current advocate of increased diversity has mooted, she responded: “Why classify people?
Oh, my, but this is going to get bloody. A luvvie has just strayed from the script. Out here in the real world, most of us couldn’t give a toss about the Oscars or the pompous pricks who parade about the silver screen thinking that what they do actually matters. So there were no black nominees this year. As Rampling points out; maybe none of them were good enough? So what? Oh, yeah, diversity and all that. Except equality is not what these people actually want.
Rampling is about to be excommunicated, I suspect. Still, well done for stirring the pot.
Popcorn sales are about to increase.
Quite right too!
“White” people can refer to many ethnicities: Irish, French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Spanish, Slovak, Russian, Polish… even Arabic, Chinese and Japanese thespians are often considered “white” these days.
And yet, only people of *African* descent appear to be considered “black”. That’s just one continent out of seven. What makes them so special that their demands trump those ethnic minorities that happen to have paler skin?
Given how the Oscars works, perhaps said actors should be having some very stern words with their agents and the producers they work for. Action movies will usually have lots more African-Americans in them than, say, a Jane Austen adaptation, but the Oscars voters tend to rate the latter rather more highly than the former; statistically speaking, there are bound to be a few occasions when not a single dark-hued actor is nominated precisely because of this inherent bias towards ‘art’ over mere popular success.
Yet another remake of “Pride and Prejudice” will trump pretty much anything with an explosion on the poster and a number at the end of its title.
She’s quite sexy tho’ isn’t she?
Even at 69, way more than the hideous Chelsea Clinton who has called her outrageous, ignorant and offensive for daring to have an opinion that differs from her and progressive mates.
Was putting together a bio on her and then she came out with this. Well done that lady.
Nope I couldn’t give a flying one either. Most of my all time favorite films never even got nominated, and some of the best actors I have ever seen never got one (Richard Burton springs to mind).
The Oscars are like the Turner Prize for Art…a ludicrous back-room stitch up. A bunch of jobbing Builders won the Turner this year! Go figure.
She’s getting one hell of a kicking from the SJWs for it, which just makes me far more convinced she hit the nail squarely on the head! You only get flack when you are right over the target…
“You only get flack when you are right over the target…”
I’m not sure the bomber crews would have agreed with you, but I know what you mean.
One way of putting it is that she is pissing off all the right people. The cognitive dissonance is a joy to behold. Here they are, the SJWs bouncing up and down in manufactured outrage over a small group of people who earn more for pretending to be someone else in one film than the average person will see in a lifetime. These are “the rich” that the SJWs despise so much.
Popcorn time.
‘Quotas’ always leave a bad taste and positive discrimination is just down right nasty. Selection on merit should be our watchword. If one year the best are exclusively Inuits/Eskimos, so be it. I suppose it would have to be a Jane Austin adaption set in Greenland though.
It was certainly amusing to watch Jada Pinkett Smith put to sea, banging her little fist and delivering her judgement on the opression of black actors through the ages, and somehow managing to avoid the obvious point that she is herself a bit-part actress whose fame has come through marriage and hasn’t been in a single film anyone can remember since The Matrix Revolutions, 15 years ago.