Richard Dreyfuss said the Academy’s new diversity standards “make me want to vomit.”
, Dreyfuss minced no words. “This is an art form,” he said. “It’s also a form of commerce, and it makes money, but it’s an art. And no one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.”
Two of four inclusion standards, ranging from having at least one character in the movie be from “an underrepresented racial or ethnic group” to having the film’s focus on one of those groups, must be met in order for a project to earn best picture consideration from the Academy. The 75-year-old actor, who won his best actor Oscar in 1978 for, added, “And what are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that. And you have to let life be life.
When Hoover asked Dreyfuss if “there’s a difference between the question of representation and who is allowed to represent other groups. . .particularly “given the history of slavery and the sensitivities around Black racism” in regards to blackface, Dreyfuss replied: “There shouldn’t be. … Because it’s patronizing. Because it says we’re so fragile that we can’t have our feelings hurt. We have to anticipate having our feelings hurt, our children’s feelings hurt.
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