Just a few years after being embroiled in the biggest corruption scandal in history, the 'Emancipation' producer sparked controversy when he brandished a graphic photo of a former slave at the film’s premiere. It was the latest example of the type of questionable behavior that saw the onetime Oscar nominee being asked to leave the set of his own movie.
— showing a man with welts and scars across his back, a picture that helped expose the atrocities of slavery during the Civil War — McFarland explained that he had taken it “upon [himself] to build and curate a collection” of photos of 19th century African Americans. The online reaction was swift and fierce.
“Why do you own the photograph? Why did you bring it to a movie premiere if the intent is to preserve it respectfully?” asked The Black List founder Franklin Leonard, who also questioned why McFarland — a white man from Kentucky — collected “slave memorabilia” and why it wasn’t already in a museum.
While probably not what McFarland expected when he brought forth his treasured acquisition from his jacket pocket for the cameras (he posted a statement two days later in which he
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