- Thank you, both of you for meeting with us
at such short notice.
We have a few projects in the works and we just really
wanted your thoughts about the casting.
Um, okay so here's the first one.
It's a romance, a musical, it's about
a struggling actress unappreciated by the industry
even though she's got lots of talent.
She falls in love with this passionate jazz musician
who loves the history and the craft of the music
and wants to open his own jazz club.
- Okay well obviously, what did you call them last time?
A woman of colour? A woman of colour.
They don't have any issues in Hollywood.
They don't have any issues getting role, so I think
realistically for the story,
like a young white woman makes sense to me.
Also, the jazz musician character, obviously jazz
is a white people thing.
- And actually we've already cast John Legend,
and we can't have two black guys who are interested
in jazz with opposing views of the art form they love.
I mean come on, it's unrealistic.
- Oh, um, okay.
Okay how about this one.
It's this drama about a cross section of society.
Everyone from a mourning child to the Prime Minister,
we see love in all of its form, it's positive and negative.
- So big on simple cast, I'm thinking, I'm thinking
it feels like maybe we almost have too much diversity
in the narrative, so I was thinking
what if we have like less diversity in the cast.
Right? So what if they were all white,
maybe we do one black, one black guy.
And we'll have, like no gay couples.
At least none of them make the final cut of the film.
Am I right? And then we'll have one disabled guy
but he'll be sort of like off screen
and really just be a plot device about how hard
it is to have disabled family members.
- Yeah I like this I like this.
- Okay, how about this one.
It's the inspiring story of the
women's rights movement in England.
It tracks both fictional and real women from history.
It's got this inspiring message of women
fighting for their rights.
- Okay okay, trick question, this one's easy, right.
They're all white, right, that's historical.
- Oh um, actually there were a number of suffragettes
who weren't white, including a literal princess.
- And they're all straight too, right?
- Um, I mean no, again actual real life
iconic suffragettes were known to have had
romantic relationships with other women.
- Great great so it's all agreed, it's all agreed, yeah.
- Okay. Um, magicians.
- Men. Maybe one hot girl.
- Magicians the sequel?
- All men, maybe a different hot girl?
- Really?
- Sweetheart we're actually throwing you a bone here
because all magicians are men in real life.
Men are the magic ones, women are only magic in stories
and normally they're witches and witches are evil
so really it's kind of a good thing,
that that's not realistic.
- Okay then. How about this one.
It's set in New York City, it's the height of the jazz age.
The Roaring Twenties are going.
It tracks the rise of a dictator that's in parallel
to the rise of Hitler in Europe.
- I mean we can probably compromise on this one, right?
So like, we'll make some of the cast possibly Jewish.
Like we'll give them a Jewish sounding name,
like Goldstein, is Goldstein a Jewish sounding name?
We'll do that.
And I mean this is a kid's movie so we just need to
make sure that it's not like explicit and obvious
to the target audience.
- Oh this is a kid's movie, oh well I was going to suggest
an openly gay character portrayed in a positive light
but we can't, we can't let kids see that can we?
No.
- And the last one.
So it's a love story.
- Straight and white.
- Sometimes straight and black.
- Probably not interracial.
- Or Asian.
- And no gays or any of the other ones,
you know any of the other letters.
- Except maybe bi, but only if it's the girl.
And only if it's sexy.
- Okay you know what, I feel like even if
I brought you a story about
real life trans women of colour,
you'd still find a way of making it about a white male.
- I mean...
- So yeah, I hope you enjoyed that.
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