{"id":114402,"date":"2021-01-31T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114402"},"modified":"2021-01-31T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:27:02","slug":"sia-hollywood-executives-pressured-me-into-casting-white-people-for-my-feature-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sia-hollywood-executives-pressured-me-into-casting-white-people-for-my-feature-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Sia: Hollywood Executives Pressured Me Into Casting White People For My Feature Film"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsia-hollywood-executives-pressured-me-into-casting-white-people-for-my-feature-film%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=114402&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--><p>Singer\/songwriter Sia said she&#8217;s &#8220;part of the problem&#8221; for casting white women in her movie, which she says came at the behest of executives.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a panel at the Sundance Film Festival, Sia said that when she originally cast &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; star Leslie Odom Jr. in one role for her movie &#8220;Music,&#8221; executives warned her that if she cast a black female opposite Odom Jr., the movie would then be considered a &#8220;black movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was gross,\u201d Sia said, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/Movies\/2021\/01\/31\/Sia-regrets-caving-to-casting-pressures-for-Music\/9951612075935\/\">UPI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sia recalled being warned that the movie would be &#8220;put in a different category.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won\u2019t be commercial, it won\u2019t be mainstream,\u201d executives allegedly told her.<\/p>\n<p>Sia ultimately regrets succumbing to the pressure of listening to &#8220;a lot of white men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just tried to listen to anybody who had any experience in the business,\u201d Sia said. \u201cLooking back, I guess that was a lot of white men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m part of the problem, not the solution,\u201d she asserted. \u201cI\u2019m learning, you know? Next time, I\u2019ll cast whoever I want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sia said she learned of the black experience after adopting her two 18-year-old black sons in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re teaching me,\u201d she said. \u201cI just listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of massive Black Lives Matter protests across the nation last year, Hollywood celebrities have been increasingly demanding that the industry create more opportunities for black talent. Michael B. Jordan, who played Killmonger in Marvel\u2019s \u201cBlack Panther,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/black-panther-star-michael-b-jordan-hollywood-must-commit-to-black-hiring\">called on Hollywood<\/a>\u00a0to \u201ccommit to black hiring,\u201d demanding they invest in \u201cblack staff\u201d and focus on black stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want us to invest in black staff,\u201d said Jordan. \u201cI\u2019m proud to have an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/entertainment\/2018\/03\/michael_b_jordan_inclusion_rider.html\">inclusion rider<\/a>\u00a0and all that good stuff and I use my power to demand diversity, but it\u2019s time the studios and agencies \u2014 all the agencies, all these buildings that we\u2019re standing in front of \u2026 do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou committed to a 50\/50 gender parity in 2020, where is the challenge to commit to black hiring?\u201d Jordan added. \u201cBlack content led by black executives, black consultants. Are you policing our storytelling as well?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Jordan called on the industry to shine more light on the discrimination that black cultural leaders have faced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let us bring our darkness to the light. Black culture. The sneakers, sports, comedic culture that you guys love so much \u2014 we\u2019ve dealt with discrimination at every turn. Can you help fund black brands, companies, cultural leaders, black organizations?\u201d Jordan continued. \u201cA great agent doesn\u2019t have to be a great organizer, but a great agent could advocate for relationships with organizers. Will you support a non-profit that\u2019s working to solve problems of our industry, that our industry created?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rapper Ice Cube even went as far as to say that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-ice-cube-says-hollywood-owes-black-people-reparations\">Hollywood owes black people<\/a>\u00a0reparations for its past participation in America\u2019s racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually all the studios who contributed in our narrative, in our pain, in our misrepresentation, in stealing our history and giving it to white people for over a 100 years, so I think these studios that we know and love should kick in to a studio that\u2019s ran by black people with no outside influences, and whose movies and projects are owned by those black people,\u201d Ice Cube said on \u201cThe Breakfast Club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer\/songwriter Sia said she\u2019s \u201cpart of the problem\u201d for casting white women in her movie, which she says came at the behest of executives. 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