Hollywood actress, Halle Berry, has finally opened up about the Hollywood's lack of diversity, saying the issue is not inclusion or diversity but rather, the movies coming out are not "truthful" to black people.
Like we've earlier
been reporting, diversity has become a big issue since, for the second
year in a row, no people of color were nominated for acting at the Oscar
Awards.
Berry, the sole black woman to win an
Academy Award in the lead actress category for her work in "Monster’s
Ball", told the audience at an AOL’s Makers Conference in Rancho Palos
Verdes, California, that movies today do not accurately portray the role
of people of color in our everyday lives.
She added that the reason films are “not
truthful these days is they aren’t really depicting the importance and
the involvement and the participation of people of color in our American
culture.”
"Our cities are filled with
black and brown people, and many times, unfortunately, we see films that
are set in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, big metropolitan cities, and
they’re devoid of people of color," Berry noted
She further expressed, “When
we really live up to our responsibility and challenge ourselves to be
truthful, and tell the truth in our storytelling, then people of color
will be there in a real competitive way, and it won’t be about inclusion
or diversity because, if we’re telling the truth, inclusion and
diversity will be a byproduct of the truth.”
Berry
also lamented that her Oscar win 15 years ago didn’t result in more
black women being cast as film leads, and blamed movie makers for being
narrow sighted when creating parts.
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