Speaking out and standing up to racism was the theme of a recent SAG-AFTRA panel on “Race & Storytelling.” Moderator Jason George recalled a paint-down incident while filming the 20…
– each spoke of their own encounters with, and standing up to, racism in Hollywood – both micro and macro. And in some cases, almost every day.
The next day, they did the show. “I hugged him and gave him a kiss. And for me, it was an important moment. There are so many times in this industry when we’re told what to do and we just know it’s not the right thing to do. It was not organically correct. It wasn’t just, and it wasn’t fair. And I couldn’t say it to them because they would have just found another way to block it or cut it out. So I agreed and then just did what I wanted to do. And I will never regret that moment.”story, said.
Hurd, with a head of admittedly “curly crazy hair,” recalled an incident several years ago on a popular TV series that she didn’t name. After the first day’s shoot, she got a call from the producers. “We love your hair,” they said. “It’s so pretty. But what we’ve done is, we’ve done some research, and we found out that in our research, a woman of color can’t own a business unless she has straightened hair.
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