Hollywood’s Stunt Industry Grapples With Issues of Race and Skin Color

Variety ^ | March 1, 2019 | Todd Longwell

[LYDIAONTARIO]

“Okay so from now on all actors must do their own stunts and if they die well that would be less horrifying than blackface I guess” .........LOL!!

[cherry]

I’m offended seeing white characters played by blacks.....or vice versa......those old westerns with the Italian actors as Indian chiefs are just silly..

[kearnyirish2]

Pay us - gibs me!

[kearnyirish2]

I encourage my children to look at STEM fields because they are the most viable jobs not of the future, but of the present. Nobody I know complains about racial BS in STEM; if there are minorities present, they worked hard to get there and have no patience for gibsmedats.

While gubmint jobs are lucrative, they expose you to ferals that have no business in a workplace. In my twon here in NJ, a postal worker ran down two others a car a couple of days ago after a dispute (they survived): https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/02/postal-worker-strikes-2-co-workers-car-after-dispute-police.html

[This I Wonder32460]

It’s like outrage is a nutrient they need to live.

[hanamizu]

Nobody I know complains about racial BS in STEM;

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But there is an outcry from the usual suspects about the lack of ‘diversity’ in the STEM fields and how steps need to be taken to ‘correct’ it. It’s almost become a cliche how the movie Idiocracy is turning out to be, in fact, a documentary.

[ClearBlueSky]

When you're nothing INSIDE only the OUTSIDE matters. Superficiality. Vapid, shallow people are color obsessed. Ugly , stupid and evil comes in all colors.
How many minorities in stunt work. It's dangerous. If you find the right, competent, body double you paint them orange with dots if necessary.

[kearnyirish2]

I believe the salaries are too high for the normal seeding of departments with useless tokens (as is often done in more clerical/administrative work) - and the skill sets are in such demand that those possessing them won’t tolerate BS from tokens.

[Paal Gulli]

I started watching the new film about Mary Queen of Scots. Queen Elizabeth I of England, it turns out, had a black man on her privy council and an Asian woman for a lady in waiting.

I’m not quite sure why they didn’t just use a CGI Michael Jackson as the Queen of England.