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Oscars ‘Boycott’ Is ‘Racist Against Whites’知らせ

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Charlotte Rampling Says Oscars ‘Boycott’ Is ‘Racist Against Whites’

PARIS — Charlotte Rampling, an Academy Award nominee for best actress, on Friday waded into the furor over the lack of diversity in the Oscar acting categories, saying that the supposed calls to boycott the ceremony were “racist against whites.”

Speaking fluent French in an interview with France’s Europe 1 radio, the British actress said that one would “never really know” how the Academy makes its decisions, and that “sometimes maybe black actors didn’t deserve to make the shortlist.”

This week, the director Spike Lee and the actress Jada Pinkett Smith said they would not be attending the Feb. 28 Oscars ceremony in protest of the all-white slate of acting nominees. Mr. Lee later clarified that he was not calling for a boycott, but he suggested that Hollywood studios institute a policy similar to the N.F.L.’s requirement that teams interview minority candidates for head coach and senior staff jobs.

Ms. Rampling — who is a member of the Academy and thus eligible to vote on Oscar awards — said she disagreed with quotas. “We live now in countries where anyway people are more or less accepted,” she said. “There are always problems: ‘He’s less handsome’ or ‘He’s too black’ or ‘He’s too white.’ There will always, always be someone who will say, ‘Oh, you’re too ….’ What are we going to do? We’re going to classify all that to create thousands of little minorities everywhere?”

Asked what she thought of the fact that so many minority performers still feel that they lack the recognition they deserve, Ms. Rampling gave a crisp “no comment.”

The backlash online was swift, with commenters like Cameron Bailey, the artistic director of the influential Toronto International Film Festival, and others also suggesting that Academy members may privately agree with her.

Ms. Rampling, 69, is up for an Oscar for her performance in Andrew Haigh’s “45 Years,” about a couple whose 45th wedding anniversary is clouded by news from the past. Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “sensitive and devastating.” The film was released in France this week.

Here’s a translation of what Charlotte Rampling said on Europe 1 Radio:

Q. This year the Oscars are beset by polemics: No black actor or actress in the selection for the second year in a row. Do you understand the anger of, for instance, Spike Lee, who called for a boycott of the ceremony?

A. No. I find that goes in the other direction: it’s racist against whites.

Really?

Yes. We can never know if it’s really the case. Sometimes maybe black actors didn’t deserve to make the shortlist.

He explains that he wants to instate quotas for minorities in American cinema so that they can make it into the selection.

Why classify people? We live now in countries where anyway people are more or less accepted. There are always problems: ‘He’s less handsome’ or ‘He’s too black’ or ‘He’s too white.’ There will always, always be someone who will say, ‘Oh, you’re too…’ What are we going to do? We’re going to classify all that to create thousands of little minorities everywhere?

The fact that they still feel like a minority, that doesn’t speak to you? They feel like a minority. They say, ‘We’re black actors and we still don’t really exist.’

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