Actor Michael Pena weighed in on the Oscar diversity controversy Friday at a press conference for John Michael McDonagh’s “War on Everyone,” which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival today.
Asked if it would change anything, Pena said: “I think it’s going to make a difference because there’s a dialogue now and we are all talking about it. I think it’ll change.”
After Pena’s “War on Everyone” co-star Alexander Skarsgard said “those are like champagne problems,” Pena added: “There are 20 actors nominated and they are all white, so… I can’t point to one performance and say: that guy or that girl should have been nominated, but systemically, yeah, I think it is a problem that there is not more diversity, and that there are not more great characters in movies and television for people who aren’t white.”...
Asked if it would change anything, Pena said: “I think it’s going to make a difference because there’s a dialogue now and we are all talking about it. I think it’ll change.”
After Pena’s “War on Everyone” co-star Alexander Skarsgard said “those are like champagne problems,” Pena added: “There are 20 actors nominated and they are all white, so… I can’t point to one performance and say: that guy or that girl should have been nominated, but systemically, yeah, I think it is a problem that there is not more diversity, and that there are not more great characters in movies and television for people who aren’t white.”...
- 2/12/2016
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety - Film News
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