I personally never cared much for Charlotte Rampling's acting. I never understood the attraction. But now I have to respect her for forging a bit of honesty in the nonsense and dishonesty about the 2016 Oscars and race. Let's hope she doesn't crumble.
Possibly one of the other, more socially righteous, nominees will step down to make way for a token black performer to to fill the "quota." m/r
Oscars 2016: Charlotte Rampling says diversity row is 'racist to white people' | Film | The Guardian
by Ben Child 1-22-16
The British actor, who is nominated for the best actress award, says black actors may not have been good enough to make the list of Oscar nominees
Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling has claimed the current campaign to boycott the 2016 Academy Awards over claims of a diversity deficit is racist to white people.
Rampling, 69, is up for the best actress prize for her role in the British drama 45 Years, from director Andrew Haigh, where she will compete against Room’s Brie Larson, Carol’s Cate Blanchett, Joy’s Jennifer Lawrence and Brooklyn’s Saoirse Ronan. Asked for her take on the current furore over all-white lists of nominees on French Radio network Europe 1 on Friday morning, the British actor did not mince her words. “It is racist to whites,” she said.
“One can never really know, but perhaps the black actors did not deserve to make the final list,” added Rampling. Asked if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should introduce quotas, a proposal which no current advocate of increased diversity has mooted, she responded: “Why classify people? These days everyone is more or less accepted ... People will always say: ‘Him, he’s less handsome’; ‘Him, he’s too black’; ‘He is too white’ ... someone will always be saying
‘You are too’ [this or that] ... But do we have to take from this that there should be lots of minorities everywhere?”
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