^^Yep. Obviously these big corporations do it all for the appearances and the money.This reminds me of how much they love to film in my country (Netflix especially) because the filming locations are cheap, the extras, the background workers cheap. So it’s great to use these people as cheap labor, not paying them as much as they would need to pay their counterparts from other countries. Actually getting a decent job would be near impossible. The writers, directors, named major roles etc. are all filled with their own british and american (and occasionally other rich english speaking countries) stars/upcoming stars. Sure, if those english actors have a certain heritage a couple of generations up, then they can pet themselves on the back for being progressive. And they will occasionally also hire already super famous chinese or south-korean actors. But that’s all they do. Unfortunately many americans are buying it and they think this is equality.
(I’ve seen some interviews (youtube link if interested) with the actors and workers from new zealand who were in the hobbit movies and they talked about how even they were screwed over, ignored, not invited to places where the other actors were, not payed the same amount for the same jobs etc. And when they complained and unionized they were threatened that the production will leave New Zealand and the hobbit movies will be filmed somewhere cheaper like Poland or Hungary. lmao those were specifically the two countries they suggested. )
