{"id":1925943,"date":"2023-05-06T23:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T03:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-richard-dreyfuss-slams-woke-hollywood-inclusion-standards-they-make-me-vomit\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T23:57:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T03:57:52","slug":"actor-richard-dreyfuss-slams-woke-hollywood-inclusion-standards-they-make-me-vomit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-richard-dreyfuss-slams-woke-hollywood-inclusion-standards-they-make-me-vomit\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dreyfuss criticizes Hollywood&#8217;s inclusion standards."},"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\">12<\/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%2Factor-richard-dreyfuss-slams-woke-hollywood-inclusion-standards-they-make-me-vomit%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=1925943&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--><h2>Actor Richard Dreyfuss Slams Hollywood&#8217;s Woke Inclusion Standards<\/h2>\n<p>Richard Dreyfuss, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gina-carano-wins-again-hits-number-one-spot-on-imdbs-star-rating\/\" title=\"Gina Carano Wins Again, Hits Number One Spot on IMDB\u2019s \u2018Star Rating\u2019\">legendary actor<\/a> known for his roles in &#8220;Jaws,&#8221; &#8220;Close Encounters of the Third Kind,&#8221; and more, recently spoke out against Hollywood&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morgan-stanley-requests-employees-fulfill-diversity-quota-in-job-application-process\/\" title=\"Morgan Stanley Requests Employees Fulfill \u2018Diversity\u2019 Quota In Job Application Process\">inclusion standards<\/a> during an interview on PBS&#8217;s &#8220;Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Problem with Hollywood&#8217;s Inclusion Standards<\/h3>\n<p>Hoover brought up the topic of Hollywood&#8217;s new inclusion standards, which require films to meet certain criteria to be eligible for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Dreyfuss didn&#8217;t hold back in his response:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They make me vomit. Because this is an art form. It\u2019s also a form of commerce, and it makes money. But it\u2019s an art. And 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dreyfuss went on to explain that art should be free from the constraints of political correctness and that no one should be telling artists what they can and cannot create. He also criticized the idea of catering to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-richard-dreyfuss-slams-woke-hollywood-inclusion-standards-they-make-me-vomit\/\" title=\"Richard Dreyfuss criticizes Hollywood's inclusion standards.\">specific minority groups<\/a>, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think that there is a minority or a majority in the country that has to be catered to like that\u2026 This is so patronizing. It\u2019s so thoughtless, and treating people like children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Art is Art<\/h3>\n<p>Dreyfuss also pointed out that Hollywood&#8217;s new inclusion standards could limit the types of roles actors can play, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a black man? Is someone else being told that if they\u2019re not Jewish, they shouldn\u2019t play the Merchant of Venice? Are we crazy? Do we not know that art is art?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He argued that art should be free from the constraints of identity politics and that actors should be able to play any role they want, regardless of their race or ethnicity.<\/p>\n<h3>The Bottom Line<\/h3>\n<p>Dreyfuss&#8217;s comments highlight the growing divide between Hollywood&#8217;s woke culture and those who believe that art should be free from political correctness. While inclusion and diversity are important, they should not come at the expense of artistic freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Richard Dreyfuss blasted woke inclusion standards in Hollywood during an interview this week, saying that it was \u201cpatronizing\u201d because it treats people like they are children. Dreyfuss \u2014 who is known for \u201cWhat About Bob?,\u201d \u201cAmerican Graffiti,\u201d \u201cJaws,\u201d \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind,\u201d and more \u2014 made the remarks on PBS\u2019s \u201cFiring Line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1925944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3763,15169,5893,11553,6482,14565],"class_list":["post-1925943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-criticizes","tag-dreyfuss","tag-hollywoods","tag-inclusion","tag-richard","tag-standards"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925943","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}