January 24, 2012

this is totally unscientific but i love percentages

bananaleaves:

this is totally unscientific but i love percentages (basic ones; i am awful at percentages in general when we are talking algebraically - information absolutely irrelevant to this post):

  • 84 total best actor academy awards given (including ties and repeat winners)
  • 84 total best actress academy awards given (including ties and repeat winners)
  • 75 total best supporting actor academy awards given
  • 75 total best supporting actress academy awards given
  • giving us a total 318 awards
  • of which, if there are 5 total black best actor/actress award winners
  • 4 latino best actor/actress award winners
  • and 4 asian best actor/actress award winners
  • that gives us a total of 13 best actor/actress award winners of color (barring any that i have not been informed about, which is v. possible)
  • giving us, ladies and gentlemen and trolls
  • a proportion of 
  • (drum roll, please)
  • 4.088%!

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January 28, 2012

fuckyeahginatorres: When I became an actress I quickly realize that the world liked their latinos to look Italian. Not like me. So I wasn’t going up for Latina parts. I was going up for African American parts. […] Regardless of the fact that I spoke the language better and understood the culture better, those weren’t the parts that…I could take seriously. Suddenly you have to explain why I look how I look. And then it gets complicated. And nobody wants complicated. Gina Torres | Black & Latino

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When I became an actress I quickly realize that the world liked their latinos to look Italian. Not like me. So I wasn’t going up for Latina parts. I was going up for African American parts. […] Regardless of the fact that I spoke the language better and understood the culture better, those weren’t the parts that…I could take seriously. Suddenly you have to explain why I look how I look. And then it gets complicated. And nobody wants complicated.

Gina Torres | Black & Latino

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Hollywood is a business. And I don’t fault it for that. It’s a business about money and advertising, and we don’t translate in the foreign market. And a lot of people want to indict Hollywood for that, but I don’t think it’s just an indictment on Hollywood; it may be more of an indictment on people who go to the theatre to put their money down – to see what? You see a film with a predominantly black cast and you don’t see it as inclusive, but you see a film with a predominantly white cast and it is. Why? I want to be a pioneer; I want to take on the responsibility and the weight of something bigger than myself, which is more diverse storylines, especially for African-American actresses. But I can only do what I do. I certainly can’t change Hollywood’s complete perception of black actresses – I need help.

Hollywood is a business. And I don’t fault it for that. It’s a business about money and advertising, and we don’t translate in the foreign market. And a lot of people want to indict Hollywood for that, but I don’t think it’s just an indictment on Hollywood; it may be more of an indictment on people who go to the theatre to put their money down – to see what? You see a film with a predominantly black cast and you don’t see it as inclusive, but you see a film with a predominantly white cast and it is. Why?

I want to be a pioneer; I want to take on the responsibility and the weight of something bigger than myself, which is more diverse storylines, especially for African-American actresses. But I can only do what I do. I certainly can’t change Hollywood’s complete perception of black actresses – I need help.

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