CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports:

Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss issued some criticism for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new diversity and inclusion standards, saying that the updated requirements for Oscar contention “make me vomit.”

“It’s an art. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is. What are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that,” Dreyfuss said.

Dreyfuss’ comments continued with a defense of Laurence Olivier’s performance in the 1965 feature “Othello,” in which the English actor played the Shakespeare lead in blackface.

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Richard Dreyfuss criticizes the Academy’s new diversity standards: “No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.” https://t.co/1sp1TEh6hI

— Variety (@Variety) May 7, 2023