Jesse Williams exudes ‘Performative diversity’, optimistic about inclusion in film

Jesse Williams Is everything for the progress that is made in the film industry … and admits that he is optimistic about the future of diversity – as long as it is not just for the show.

The actor spoke this weekend in a diverse storytelling panel for the Sundance Film Festival … and he spoke about two different attempts to promote inclusion in film: the authentic and performative.

Listen to the fragment himself … Jesse says he sees many makers and appreciates them trying to promote more equality in their films, but he says he also saw the ‘pitfall of performance diversity’.

Williams points to things like users of social media who put a black square behind it George Floyd wax killed … or that film companies are forced to hire people to check racism instead of simply stopping working with racists.

Jesse says that this kind of diversity has been there by some cursed In Hollywood – eventually falls out … and it leaves people who have essentially been hired as a ‘black friend’ in a worse position when it becomes clear that they are not qualified for the job.

In principle it is not that Jesse is against diversity in films – on the contrary, he later said during the lecture that he is optimistic about the future of diversity in the film industry – but he says it should be done with good intentions. , by colored people in leadership.

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