- And it's not even necessarily that they were saying like,
"Oh, this role is for a white woman only,"
but it was kind of like, "This role is for a ravishingly
"beautiful girl," and that in a coded way
meant that it wasn't for me.
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- "Do your friends describe you as
"as a hot Latina mom?"
- Obviously.
- "Even go so far as to call you
" the real life Sofia Vergara?"
- "New TV show is now searching for
"hot-blooded, passionate, attractive Latina moms."
- The emphasis here is more on the fact
that she's hot and less on the fact that she's a mom.
- Reality shows are weird because they're
definitely playing into stereotypes.
- If I hear one more time Latinas
referred to as spicy, I'm gonna freak out
and then people will tell me I'm being
hot-blooded and spicy.
- I actually found this kind of funny as a Latin person.
What do they think about Latin folk?
Like we're all like (trilling his tongue)
like with maracas or something?
- Acura car commercial.
The role name is African American car dealer.
Role details: Nice-looking,
friendly, not too dark.
- It just got so awkward in here.
(laughing)
I am so uncomfortable. (laughing)
- Clearly they're not a fan of people that are more tan.
- It's like when I think about the spectrum of blackness,
like I could go to someone else and be like,
"Alright, well, like I'm lighter than them
"but I'm darker than them so like am I too dark?
"Am I not too dark?
"Like where do I fit on that spectrum?"
- It's colorism.
It's just one of those things where people
are like if you're darker skinned,
then they don't want you.
- Six words and that's like the most
racist (bleep) I've read all week.
- Yeah.
- We're just getting started.
Like I feel like it's just gonna
get way worse from here.
Whoa, oh my god, I can't, okay.
- Male, 20s to 40s, Asian, petite,
average or chubby, frontal and back nudity.
Must have extremely (gasps).
- Must have an extremely small penis.
- This makes me sad.
- This makes me so mad. - It should.
- I also think what's like troublesome is that
whenever race is called out
it's to play out a stereotype.
- If you're an Asian dude, you gotta be like
weird looking, we're gonna give you a tiny peen,
and that's perfect.
- There's no redeeming factor in this
other than the fact that Chang gets a name.
- This gets two giant Asian (bleep) down.
(laughing)
Oh (bleep), I don't even want to read this out loud.
I feel like tactless even repeating
what's on this page.
- A Girls, these are the hottest of the hottest,
models, must have real hair.
- B Girls, these are fine girls,
long natural hair, really nice body,
small waist, nice hips,
you should be light skinned,
Beyonce is a prototype here.
(laughing)
- Don't know where the (bleep) this casting
director came from.
- No, no, let's like, let's stop.
Let's like think.
- So C Girls are African American girls,
medium to light skinned with a weave.
- D Girls, these are African American girls,
poor, not in good shape, medium to dark
skin tone.
- [Woman] What. - [Man] Whoa.
- So like the hotter the girl is, the more open
her ethnicity can be, but the more undesirable
the girl gets, the more pigeon holed her race becomes.
- You know why Beyonce's a B Girl.
'Cause she's black.
- Oh.
Again with like skin darkness determining your worth.
- This is like literally my childhood insecurities
on like a piece of paper.
- This just makes me sad and it makes me
really sad for young actors and actresses who are
trying to come up and seeing how like if you're
a person of color, if you're a woman,
this is what is out there for you.
There aren't necessarily a ton
of dynamic roles for you.
- That while we've come a long way from
like pure, you know, black face or yellow face
or things like that, racism has just sort of
molded itself, it's manifested itself
in a new sneakier way.
It's not gone, it just doesn't look
the way it used to look.
- This is why I need to write 16 more movies.
Like we need to be producing content
and making our own films
and sitting on the casting couch.
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