{"id":1008277,"date":"2021-11-13T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1008277"},"modified":"2021-11-13T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T22:14:18","slug":"complaints-from-actress-ada-maris-prompt-netflix-to-cut-latina-character-from-unreleased-comedy-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/complaints-from-actress-ada-maris-prompt-netflix-to-cut-latina-character-from-unreleased-comedy-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Complaints from Actress Ada Maris Prompt Netflix to Cut Latina Character from Unreleased Comedy Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcomplaints-from-actress-ada-maris-prompt-netflix-to-cut-latina-character-from-unreleased-comedy-pilot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1008277&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ada-maris-neil-patrick-harris-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Netflix is axing a Latina housekeeper character from its upcoming comedy series&nbsp;<em>Uncoupled<\/em>&nbsp;after actress&nbsp;Ada Maris, who is of Mexican descent, became outraged by her lines and suggested that&nbsp;the show\u2019s creator Darren Star and actor&nbsp;Neil Patrick Harris \u2014 who stars in the series \u2014 should have known better, because they are gay.<\/p>\n<p>Maris (pictured, left) said that she was shocked to come across the small role of a housekeeper in the first episode of <em>Uncoupled<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen I opened it and saw that it wasn\u2019t even funny \u2014 it was hurtful and derogatory \u2014 I was shocked, because I walked in expecting something very different, given the way things are nowadays and the progress we\u2019ve made,\u201d&nbsp;the actress&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/news\/ada-maris-uncoupled-neil-patrick-harris-darren-star-1235110247\/\">told<\/a> <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Uncoupled<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 created by Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman for Jax Media and MTV Studios \u2014 stars Neil Patrick Harris (pictured, right) as a successful professional in New York who has to navigate the dating scene again after his husband Colin abruptly walks out on him.<\/p>\n<p>When Maris read the lines for Carmen, the housekeeper&nbsp;Harris\u2019s character,&nbsp;Michael, she reportedly became outraged by the lines and the characterization of the housekeeper, who was written to speak in broken English.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The character had two scenes, one in which&nbsp;Carmen is \u201cnearly hysterical on the phone\u201d with Michael, because she gets to the house, sees that Colin\u2019s possessions are missing, and jumps to the conclusion that there has been a&nbsp;burglary in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMister, I just get here and they stole!\u201d the character reportedly exclaims. \u201cThey&nbsp;stole! They rob you! I don\u2019t know how they get in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the second scene, Carmen takes a glass that Michael has just washed and says, \u201cNo, I do that. You don\u2019t clean good, you always leave a ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maris expressed her dismay over Carmen\u2019s lines, telling <em>Variety<\/em> she was surprised that gay men such as Star and Harris would not be more sensitive to the portrayal of the housekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are modern gay men. How would you like to watch or play an outdated, offensively stereotypical gay part?\u201d Maris asked.<\/p>\n<p>While Harris is one of five executive producers on the show, he is not a writer for the series, and was not involved in the casting process for the Carmen role, notes <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Netflix says it is axing the Latina housekeeper character from the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re sorry that Ms. Maris had a negative experience, and this character will not appear in the series,\u201d a Netflix spokesman said in a statement to Variety.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is axing a Latina housekeeper character from its upcoming comedy series\u00a0Uncoupled\u00a0after actress\u00a0Ada Maris, who is of Mexican descent, became outraged by her lines and suggested that\u00a0the show\u2019s creator Darren &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}