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Actress Hilarie Burton says she walked away from Hallmark job after 'diverse casting' requests were ignored
The Hill ^ | 12 17 2019 | Morgan Gstalter

Posted on 12/17/2019 11:03:34 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Actress Hilarie Burton says she walked away from a job for the Hallmark Channel earlier this year after executives ignored her requests for an "LGBTQ character, an interracial couple and diverse casting."

Burton's claims come after the network was embroiled in a scandal this month over first pulling and then reinstating commercials with a same-sex kiss.

Burton, who has appeared in several Hallmark Channel movies such as “Summer Villa” and “Naughty or Nice,” wrote in a Twitter thread Sunday that she was “let go” from a job back in January.

“I had insisted on a LGBTQ character, an interracial couple and diverse casting. I was polite, direct and professional. But after the execs gave their notes on the script and NONE of my requests were honored, I was told ‘take it or leave it,’” Burton wrote. “I left it. And the paycheck.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; diversity; gaygaygay; getwokegobroke; hallmark; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; lgbtq
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“I had insisted on a LGBTQ character, an interracial couple and diverse casting. I was polite, direct and professional."

She should become a producer then she can control casting of her own projects.

1 posted on 12/17/2019 11:03:34 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Never heard of her. But gosh! She sure sounds noble!!


2 posted on 12/17/2019 11:05:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: yesthatjallen

I find it hard to believe that Hallmark hasn’t had an interracial couple in their movies over the years. They’ve been doing this for a while.

But I admit I haven’t been on top of this genre. Have they really had no interracial couples in their films?


3 posted on 12/17/2019 11:05:58 AM PST by Ted Grant
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>....I was polite, direct and professional."

And stupid......................

4 posted on 12/17/2019 11:06:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: yesthatjallen

“”“I had insisted on a LGBTQ character, an interracial couple and diverse casting. I was polite, direct and professional.”””””””””

Thank you for your input, Now pack your schiff and beat it.


5 posted on 12/17/2019 11:06:42 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: yesthatjallen

[[I was polite, direct and professional....]]

‘...And when they didn’t meet my irrational demands, i became all stompy foot and left’


6 posted on 12/17/2019 11:07:08 AM PST by Bob434
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To: yesthatjallen

Jeepers. I miss the good old days when faggots/perverts only wanted to be left alone.


7 posted on 12/17/2019 11:07:35 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: yesthatjallen

Was it a LGBTQ character, or was it really just a “T”?


8 posted on 12/17/2019 11:07:41 AM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, la dee frickin’ dah!


9 posted on 12/17/2019 11:07:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yesthatjallen

I never heard of her but I guess the makers of television commercials must have heard and responded to her virtue signaling.


10 posted on 12/17/2019 11:08:34 AM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: yesthatjallen

If the LGBTQ community wants more programs with gays, why the heck don’t they just get their own channel?!

Jeez louise, there’s nothing on I want to see, but I don’t try to shove what I want down other people’s throats. I just turn off the dammed TV.


11 posted on 12/17/2019 11:08:43 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Looks like she's probably played some crazy stalker chicks in Lifetime movies.


12 posted on 12/17/2019 11:08:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Ted Grant
Have they really had no interracial couples in their films?

Unknown, but it appears they're going to skip right over that boring stuff and go straight to queers and trannys.

13 posted on 12/17/2019 11:09:37 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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I miss the good old days when faggots/perverts only wanted to be left alone.

Today, that's pretty much all I want, is to be left alone by the 'woke'.

14 posted on 12/17/2019 11:10:07 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Ted Grant

All you see in ads any more are interracial couples, and most ads have to have the stupid, incompetent white male with an always wise woman or minority to look down on him. I’ve noticed that there are comedies now that have that as their main schtick - dumb, un-cool white guy looked down upon by hip, smart black guys.


15 posted on 12/17/2019 11:10:15 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: mewzilla

[[why the heck don’t they just get their own channel?!]]

Because that’s not their goal- they want to ruin everything that other people control-


16 posted on 12/17/2019 11:10:51 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Somebody hit her with a whole forest of ugly sticks.

Laz, would NEVER ...


17 posted on 12/17/2019 11:11:16 AM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Magnum44

All white folk should be ashamed and embarrassed for being white. Problem solved.


18 posted on 12/17/2019 11:11:34 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sounds like everyone was exercising their rights. Hallmark can produce whatever content they like, and an actress can choose to refuse a role. God Bless America.


19 posted on 12/17/2019 11:12:42 AM PST by Lemon Curry
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To: Buckeye McFrog

She looks perfectly suited to fill a position in the Pole Dancing or straight-to-video-porn industry.


20 posted on 12/17/2019 11:12:46 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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