Depends... do current judges come with biases away from those groups?

Inclusion Riders will help Producers distinguish between true Stars, and those with only good publicity agents. After a couple of bombs, people who insist on such Riders will find their virtue signaling results in not being cast. It will be more subtle than looking for which Stars are only being cast in soap commercials and Comic Con appearances.

I don't understand how cis white people, who believe in this stuff, can ethically keep their job, or take new jobs. Certainly a person of color can do that job and well, come on, deserves it more.

It seems completely unethical to take that job for that white person at the top of the cast list and deny a job to a person of color at the top, while also denying a job to a white person of color at the bottom of the crew list. Seems far more ethical to give that top of the cast position to a person of color, as well as pay everyone a bit less so that at the bottom of the crew list they can hire 3 or 4 people of all sorts of diversities for every position.

I hope they do it. Make Hollywood live by the standards that it wants to impose on everyone else. Male presenters at the BBC are getting their salaries cut, because it's "unethical" for them to make more than female presenters, regardless of talent, experience or ratings. There's an uproar today because Claire Foy, who has been playing Queen Elizabeth on The Crown, hasn't been paid as much as Matt Smith, who has been playing Prince Phillip. The problem: Claire Foy was an unknown when she was cast. Matt Smith is already well known in Britian -- he played one incarnation of The Doctor on the highly rated sci-fi series Doctor Who. Doesn't seem to matter, though: Apparently the woman should be paid more, just because. Both actors are now leaving the show, and the roles are being re-cast. Wonder who they are going to pull out of a high school drama club to play Phillip.

And even more to the point: will they cast a minority person, even though the real Phillip is white? After all, if there are going to be quotas for crew, then there should be quotas for cast too. Sorry, Ms. Showrunner, we can't air that show. You have too many white male characters.

@Jerry: I don't understand how cis white people, who believe in this stuff, can ethically keep their job, or take new jobs. Certainly a person of color can do that job and well, come on, deserves it more.

Because it's not about doing the right thing. It's about appearing to do the right thing while someone else pays the cost. Neat trick if you can manage it.

Actually, it's not that it matters all that much. It seems that most movie critics acknowledge that Hollywood today is at a creative nadir. Most actors and actresses aren't really capable of playing anything other than themselves. And today Hollywood is dominated by franchises, where the cast is secondary to the costumes and SFX. The last Batman movie I saw -- I don't even remember which one it was -- the title character could have been played by any man who had the proper physique and spoke in complete sentences.

Cousin dave was asking about demands to case minorities as historical white figures: it is already a demand. There were big complaints that Dunkirk was too white and male. They in fact probably showed more minorities in street scenes than actually were in 1939 Britain. And yet, it is ok to have all black movies, of which there are many every year. As they say, if it wasn't for double standards...

Isn't that the whole point of Hamilton?

It is outrageous and selfish of these stars to demand "inclusion riders" -- showing huge fiscal naivete ~ Amy

Fiscal naiveté? Half these "stars" barely graduated high school and you want them to show fiscal sophistication?

"Stars" get an out-sized amount of respect for the role they're playing. In the '80s Jack Klugman was invited by Henry Waxman to testify in front of Congress on the Orphan Drug Act.

The invitation to testify was not because Jack Klugman possessed any expertise on orphan drugs or drugs or even medicine, but because Jack Klugman played a savvy medical examiner on the then-popular Quincy, ME on television. Quincy, ME did two episodes on orphan diseases and drugs which bolstered his testimony. Waxman used Klugman's celebrity to steamroll the changes to the bill put forth by Orrin Hatch.

Klugman studied drama at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University - not medicine or pharmacology or even science. He wasn't a doctor, but he played one on TV - and that was enough.

The smallest experience is enough to give a "star" a public perception of expertise in a field, expertise greater than that of someone who toiled for years in that field. Who's the greater scientist - Jim Parsons (plays a fictional physicist) or Stephen Hawking (R.I.P.)?

Ask the public to name one scientist and they'll scratch their heads and come up with Bill Nye (not a scientist) or "the wheelchair guy." Ask them to name a movie star and they'll pour forth a flurry of names.

We're honoring and esteeming the wrong people. And it's affecting our future. More kids want to be actors then want to be scientists. Who can blame them? The work is easier, the pay is better, and the recognition greater.

There was a storm of controversy a few years back when Miss Saigon hit Broadway. The part of the half-Asian / half-Caucasian bartender was played by a white guy. Mercy!

But, if Orson Welles can play Othello (a Moor) and Denzel Washington can play Hamlet (a Dane), why can't a white guy play a half-white bartender?

Because diversity. Racism. Virtue signaling.

Note: I had to be careful typing that, lest it come out half-wit bartender.

Wonder who they are going to pull out of a high school drama club to play Phillip.

Obviously, a woman. Even better, tho, would be a transwoman. If Matt Smith had come out as a transwoman, this wouldn't have been an issue.

Also: he could have been the first female Doctor!

It's a start!

Soon they can replace all their actors and technicians with inexpensive Indian labor.

Let's face it, buying a home in Mumbai is a lot less expensive than Hollywood. Salaries can be adjusted accordingly.

Well, for the non-executive class, anyway.

"And today Hollywood is dominated by franchises, where the cast is secondary to the costumes and SFX."

We are long past due a Calvin and Hobbes movie.

Why does anyone care what Hollywood does?

It seems like the people who are most critical of it have the most ideas as to how it should be run.

Let them do "diversity riders" or demands for 80-foot trailers or whatever. People are just looking to be angry about something.

@Gog: Soon they can replace all their actors and technicians with inexpensive Indian labor.

Soon, they can replace all their technicians with inexpensive Indian labor, because all the performers will be replaced with CGI.

I was watching Training Day for the first time in 15 years. Denzel Washington's performance was amazing. He was so good that it felt like the rest of the cast was only there as part of an inclusion rider. Upon re-watching I noticed that the plot and screenplay were a little cheesy and it made me appreciate even more how Denzel carried the movie.

There is so much mediocre acting in movies these days that when I see an actor who is good at their craft it really stands out. That is what Hollywood needs more than ticking off some boxes.

Now do cars!

https://www.lifezette.com/momzette/shoes-for-the-dead-litter-capitol-hill-thanks-global-advocacy-organization/

Sorry about the misfired linkie. Hopefully, not too much collateral damage was done.

Why does anyone care what Hollywood does?

Because there are enough loons out there to make the same demands in the rest of the work places in the country.

Are there, for instance, enough quality persons of color who also are decent at engineering to fill all the spots, or will some places have to do without if they can't attract qualified applicants?

Or will they feel pressure to place a warm body of color into such position, and then work around that body?

"an actor who is good at their craft"

Seconded and that goes for directors, too. Spike Lee can throw down a good film and that's how he gets the big audience.

New Workplace Diversity Initiative Kills One White Employee Every Hour On The Hour Until More Minority Candidates Hired

https://local.theonion.com/new-workplace-diversity-initiative-kills-one-white-empl-1823765187

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Why are we still paying any attention to Hollywood?

They're hopelessly converged. They can keep their products.

I noticed that the director of A Wrinkle in Time made a big deal out of showing herself (she is black). Given how awful it was, she should have stayed hidden. The problem with the movie had nothing to do with blackness, it was allowing Oprah's Gnostic theology to take over the plot and dialog of what had been a Christian book.