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WHAT???THE????FUCK?????
This is disgusting, i'm so upset for this.
Also, I'm white and I don't feel I'm the right person to talk of this.🤷🏼♀️
please speak up!!!!
Im desi.
This is disgusting. I am sick to my stomach and I can only imagine that this is less than half what Amita must have felt when she was told her stunt double was a white woman whom they would put in brown face.
Netflix has been blasting the diversity of this show for a while. And sure, capitalise off of diversity points. I don't care about that because we don't have enough diversity in western shows and therefore it matters when we do have it.
It matters when netflix puts a brown woman on screen and tells us shes amazing. Tells us she's not lesser for her faith. It matters when netflix puts a brown woman of colour in a main role and doesn't reduce her to a caricature. It matters.
So it also matters when netflix props up a brown woman and then gives her a white stunt double. When they put that white stunt double in brownface. When their brown actress was training to do those same stunts. When they were filming in Europe and Asia and could have easily found a stunt double of the same damn ethnicity as Amita.
It. Matters.
Inej is such an important character to me. But if there isn't diversity behind the scenes, what use is there of having diversity on screen? Leigh and Eric spoke endlessly about how important it was to them to have diversity on and off set. Why couldn't it extend to this? Why am I, as a brown woman, once again being told I'm not good enough? That a white woman only has to show up while I have to claw and fight and prove my way to make even half the same progress.
I'm tired. Amita Suman deserves better. I deserve better. The little brown girls who are growing up and watching this deserve better.
^^^!!!
This is an ongoing problem in Hollywood. Here are a few articles about it (most refer specifically to African-Americans but obviously it’s an issue for all POC, the first article also addresses “wigging” in which they put a wig on a male stunt double instead of using a female stunt double):
The Telegraph article is blocked by a paywall but you can read it if you give them your email address. It boils down to how stunt coordinators claim they can’t find POC who are stunt doubles, but that this is a claim made any time someone wants to sidestep diversity. Hollywood is fueled by nepotism and stunt coordinators would rather hire their white friend than a brown or black person. In addition, it’s a difficult issue for both actors & stunt doubles to speak up about. Not only do they risk being blacklisted from the industry, but stunts can sometimes be very dangerous (life and death dangerous) and upsetting the wrong stunt coordinator can have harmful consequences. The granddaughter of a black stuntman (Ernie Robinson) said her grandfather told her about a time a black stuntman was supposed to barrel through breakaway glass but it was “accidentally” replaced with plexiglass.
this isn’t to distract attention from S&B & Eric’s actions but highlight how this is a really big problem that many people have been fighting for decades, yet there’s little awareness of it. It’s a form of racism that the S&B stunt coordinator (among others i’m sure) actively participated in, probably thinking they could get away with it because everyone gets away with it. Performative activism at its finest.
tl;dr: Hollywood is still racist to its core, S&B is no exception.