Kumail Nanjiani Accuses Hollywood Studio Execs of Racism: “People Don’t Want To Cast Non-white People as Bad Guys”
Eternals And Obi-Wan Kenobi Kumail Nanjiani, an actor, accused Hollywood executives recently of racism by claiming that they refuse to let non-white actors play villains.
(L-R): Haja Estree (Kumail Nanjiani) and Reva (Moses Ingram) in Lucasfilm’s OBI-WAN KENOBI, exclusively on Disney+. © 2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™. All Rights Reserved.
The following is a Esquire interviewed me for a long time His upcoming TV miniseries Chippendales is your home! Nanjiani said that Hollywood casting agents and executives don’t cast non-white actors as villains.
Nanjiani first posited, “I think that Hollywood now – even though they’re trying to be more diverse – is still weird.”
Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) in Marvel Studios’ ETERNALS. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
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Esquire’s Henry Wong then went on to summarize Nanjiani’s argument, “The problem, Nanjiani wagers, is that good intentions can sometimes lead to misguided solutions: if the bad guy is a brown guy, what message is that sending?”
As it’s framed by Wong in the Esquire article Nanjiani concurred telling him, “And that’s just as limiting as anything else. I want to play more bad guys.”
(L-R): Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) and Karun (Harish Patel) in Marvel Studios’ ETERNALS. Marvel Studios. Photo by Harish Patel. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Nanjiani compared himself to Sebastian Stan, another Marvel Studios actor who plays Winter Soldier, but who can also be able to leap out of his role and become Steve. Steve is an organ-harvesting, serial killer in Hulu Original Film. Fresh. Nanjiani briefly compared himself to Stan and then unwittingly revealed Hollywood’s anti-white agenda.
The Obi-Wan Kenobi Actor stated “[Sebastian Stan] does these big Marvel movies, and then he’ll play a psychopath. I was told that’s going to be hard because people don’t want to cast non-white people as bad guys.”
Wong actually claims that “if Welcome to Chippendales were not based on a true story, Nanjiani believes that the central role would have gone to a white actor.”
(L-R): Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), Sersi (Gemma Chan) and Sprite (Lia McHugh) in Marvel Studios’ ETERNALS. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Nanjiani points out, Hollywood has kept this anti-white agenda a secret. It’s part of the whole representation agenda that these massive companies have adopted and began propagandizing onto audiences.
Amazon Studios’ Inclusion Policy and Inclusion Playbook Jennifer Salke, Head Amazon Studios, announced that the announcement was made in June 2021. “With the establishment of our Inclusion Policy and Inclusion Playbook, Amazon Studios has committed itself to being a thought and action leader in the transformation of our industry.”
She said, “We know how much work there is to be done to improve representation both on camera and behind the scenes, and it starts at home, with us. With clear directives and a commitment to accountability, these guides provide a path toward a more equitable future, both on- and off-camera.”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 15: (L-R) Vernon Sanders, Head of Global TV of Amazon Studios, and Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios attends “The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power” Los Angeles Red Carpet Premiere & Screening on August 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty images for Prime Video
This isn’t isolated to Amazon Studios. Reimagine Tomorrow is an initiative of Walt Disney Company. Documents obtained by Christopher F. Rufo in May 2021 include training. “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” “white fragility,” “white saviors,” “microaggressions,” And “antiracism.”
The Reimagine Tomorrow campaign would be exposed further after The Walt Disney Company decided that it would antagonize Florida by supporting a bill to prevent public schools in Florida from teaching students about sexual orientation or gender identity between kindergarten-third grade.
The initiative had a secret agenda to force gay and lesbian content onto children. Current director for Disney’s The Proud Family – Louder and Prouder Latoya Raveau made the following statement during a Reimagine Tomorrow conference. “In my little pocket of Proud Family Disney TVA, the showrunners were super welcoming. Meredith Roberts and our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda.”
She said, “Maybe it was that way in the past, but I guess something must have happened in the last, they are turning it around, they’re going hard, and then like all that momentum that I felt, that sense of ‘I don’t have to be afraid to let’s have these two characters kiss in the background.’ I was just, wherever I could, just basically adding queerness. If you see anything queer in the show — no one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop me.”
SCOOP: I’ve obtained video from inside Disney’s all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive producer Latoya Raveneau says her team has implemented a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and is frequently updated “adding queerness” to children’s programming. pic.twitter.com/eJnZMpKIXT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
While the focus of Reimagine Tomorrow during the the battle with the state of Florida was focused on sexual orientation and gender identity, former Disney CEO Bob Chapek noted the company’s goal was to reshape audiences minds and hearts via their content that includes this representation agenda.
In a company-wide email Chapek wrote, ” For nearly a century, our company’s stories have opened minds, inspired dreams, shown the world both as it is and how we wish it could be, and now more than ever before, represent the incredible diversity of our society. We are telling important stories, raising voices, and I believe, changing hearts and minds.”
Chapek then listed a number of content programming that the company has used in an attempt to reprogram people, “Encanto, Black Panther, Pose, Reservation Dogs, Coco, Soul, Modern Family, Shang-Chi, Summer of Soul, Love, Victor. These and all of our diverse stories are our corporate statements and they are more powerful than any tweet or lobbying effort.”
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 18: (L-R) Executive Producer and Marvel Studios Co-President Louis D’Esposito and CEO of Disney Bob Chapek arrive at the Premiere of Marvel Studios’ Eternals on October 18, 2021 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
He then stated, “I firmly believe that our ability to tell such stories-and have them received with open eyes, ears, and hearts -would be diminished if our company were to become a political football in any debate.”
Powerful content that changes hearts and minds only springs from inclusive cultures, which not only attract and retain the best and most diverse talent, but also give those employees the freedom to bring forth ideas that reflect their lives and experiences. We must work together to ensure Disney always remains such a place,” Chapek declared.
A scene from Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. © 2022 MARVEL.
Actor Seth Rogen isn’t even trying to push the propaganda through representation. He admitted back in 2020 he is “actively trying to make less things starring white people.”
When asked by Entertainment Weekly’s Leah Greenblatt about what his role on the topic of diversity in Hollywood should be, Rogen replied, “I mean personally, I think I am just actively trying to make less things starring white people.”
He went on to state, “And if I’m succeeding or I’m not, I’m very much looking to have a far more diverse group of writers and directors and actors that we generally work with, because that group is not incredibly diverse, you know?”
He then concluded, ““So that’s how I’ve been trying to deal with it, is just to actively take as they would say, anti-racist measures to assure that some work is doing done to acknowledge that Black people are very marginalized in American society.””
Seth Rogen speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for “Preacher”, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0
What do you make of Nanjiani unwittingly exposing the anti-white agenda in Hollywood while decrying them as racist for not letting non-white actors play villains?
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