Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Casting Director Calls ‘Ethnic Casting’ A New Form Of Affirmative Action & She’s All For It

Atlanta Daily World
Sonya Eskridge
March 27, 2015

Casting directors think they know why the focus of fostering diversity is bothering certain people, but they still believe it’s time for Hollywood to get a makeover.
As Risa Bramon Garcia sees it, her contemporaries do not like being told that they have to make a more conscious effort to include actors of color in the rosters they build. She told KPCC recently that this really a reflection of consumer power as advertisers are demanding networks do a better job of representing their customers and the networks then lean on the casting directors to deliver.


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