“We don’t get a lot of bites at the apple,” Longoria said about Latina directors. “My movie wasn’t low budget by any means — it wasn’t $100 million, but it wasn’t $2 million. When was the last Latina-directed studio film? It was like 20 years ago. We can’t get a movie every 20 years.”
Longoria continued, “The problem is if this movie fails, people go, ‘Oh Latino stories don’t work…female directors really don’t cut it.’ We don’t get a lot of at-bats. A white male can direct a $200 million film, fail and get another one. That’s the problem. I get one at-bat, one chance, work twice as hard, twice as fast, twice as cheap.”
“You really carry the generational traumas with you into the making of the film,” Longoria said. “For me, it fueled me. I was determined.”
Dr. Smith — founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which this past week unveiled the The Inclusion List with the Adobe Foundation — praised Longoria for “walking the walk,” having worked closely with the actor-producer-director on the Inclusion Initiative, which provides research on diversity and inclusion in entertainment.
“This was a collaborative effort to reward folks that are doing well on-screen when it comes to representation across multiple categories: gender, race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+ as well as people with disabilities and over the age of 65,” Smith said, explaining the Inclusion List. “Are we showing the stories that aren’t told? And then who is working behind the camera?”
“28% of ticket buyers at the box office are Latino,” she said. “Your film will not succeed if you don’t have the Latino audience. Do you know how many Latinos showed up for ‘Crazy Rich Asians’? Do you know how many Latinos bought a ticket for ‘Fast and the Furious’? We over-index at moviegoing, so why shouldn’t there be content for us if we are the ticket buyers? If we are the viewers? … For me, I take great pride in throwing around that buying-power weight. If you don’t speak to us, we may not buy that movie ticket.”
“We’re still underrepresented in front of the camera, we’re still underrepresented behind the camera, we’re still not tapping into the females of the Latino community,” Longoria said. “We were at 7% in TV and film, now we’re at 5%, so the myth that Hollywood is so progressive is a myth when you look at the data.”
“The illusion is that Hollywood is progressive,” she added. “The reality is that we’re still far behind in equal representation.”
I fucking wish this was true. Female directors fail up, I can only name a handful who are consistently good. So many keep getting projects and seconds, third, fourth chances...Elizabeth Banks is a great example.
Seriously. If diversity hires were held to actual standards diversity would be a dead letter. It's actually the main reason to hire the hated straight white male: You can hold him accountable for his fuck ups without getting your ass sued off.
Elizabeth Banks is the weakest link in the otherwise-excellent current version of Press Your Luck.
She is, at her very best, passable as host. That's all.
Even worse because there is already a good previous host that they deliberately did not hire, likely because he is white and male: Todd Newton, host of the 2002-03 version of the show.
Sadly, original host Peter Tomarken was killed in a plane crash in 2006.
Yeah, those “white” dudes really dominate Hollywood lol
She's stupid, racist, stupid, and racist.
When was the last single testicle man directed studio film ?
When was the last ambidextrous monkey directed studio film?
we are pushing new boundaries in stupidity, industries are not charities. You make a good movie with good story/characters and nobody cares about anything else. You make gender/race bating crap and you flop.
Maybe women just can't tell good stories because most of them lack a theory of mind for everyone that isn't them.
Fairly sure she was talking about Patty Jenkins, director of Wonder Woman.
Patty Jenkins lucked into a decent movie. That luck was not going to hold, and did not.
It's like Steven Foster, director of the Ghost Stories dub. His true incompetence showed in every other dub he directed. He's been blackballed for a reason.
I looked up the movie, this chick made a movie about a dude trying to sell some fucking Cheetos with the power of being Mexican. I kid you not. This is the official description on RT:
There's a phrase that used to exist for these movies. It's called a made for TV movie. I'm being generous with that. By this chick's own admission she gets one shot, and she makes a movie about some damn Cheetos.
The title is no lie, it's flaming hot garbage.
be bisexual, eat hot chip, and lie
I have a crazy thought…. Shut up and make a movie people want to see. Turns out movies lecturing about race, girl power, evil white man, or lgbt don’t appeal to the masses.
Problem is females and minorities aren’t forced to make a good movie because any garbage that pushes the correct narrative will win awards and get glowing praise. The movie that won the Oscar this year? A woman dealing with her lesbian daughter. Fitting for modern day Hollywood
I've worked with many women, and maybe 5% of them work as hard as the men around them.
Back in the day, I joined an all female team of recruiters. I couldn't believe how much they all slacked off. They'd make like 25-30 calls per day while I made triple that. And we were working on the same roles, so it isn't like they were going after executive roles with smaller candidate pools.
They were just fucking lazy and took constant breaks to file their nails, gab with each other, etc.
And you know what? They're right. Cause life is about more than living to work for some corporation's profit until you one day drop dead.
Sure, life is about more than work. But that doesn't mean you should slack off to that extent. At least not when you accept a job from a small business owner with ten employees. I couldn't do that to someone.
But if you work for Microsoft or some other globalist shit hole company, by all means milk them dry.
You'll quickly find that not even latinos are interested in watching latinos.
Im asian.. i avoid all asian american centric shows or movies.
I bet that the only good Latino/Asian entertainment produced is in those countries.
No one is interested in a bunch of grievance-mongering spoiled brats in America, almost universally drug-addicts and pederasts, to tell "their stories".
you don't feel represented by awkafina?
Funny, I just saw Michelle Rodriguez, notable "badass Latina" actress, with only a few dozen films under her belt, saying that "they need to stop taking white characters, stop taking white superheroes and giving them to minorities."
Clearly, Rodriguez ACTUALLY believes in the hardworking stereotype that Latinos have mostly earned.
Also funny, the success between the whiny stuck up cunt and the girl who thinks stealing is wrong. Michelle Rodriguez is just better.
Not fat enough as it is?
>Sleep your way into hollywood
>Acquire position which you are woefully unqualified for
>Fail
>?????
Those racists!!11 They need to give her a Mandelorian episode to direct starring Lizzo and Dulvaney. Nothing else will suffice!
Well...yeah, duh, of course there's fewer women in movies.
Every wave of feminism attacks and destroys female roles. Women can't be sexy, they can't be mothers, they can't be involved in movie violence, they can't be kidnapped or threatened, they can't be the prize...there's so few female roles left after feminism wades through destroying female roles.
Has their ever been a successful movie from a female director?
The rate with male directors isn't great, my guess is maybe 20%, but the reason they get new movies is they made a successful movie in the past.
I looked at the trailer...it's not an endorsement for female directors.
We can bring back Keanu and Chris Pratt after the dust settles
And Vic Mignogna. Don't forget him.