{"id":2694,"date":"2017-12-24T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/12\/24\/jessica-chastain-responds-to-criticism-of-all-white-photo-shoot-the-industry-needs-to-become-more-inclusive\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T17:33:49","slug":"jessica-chastain-responds-to-criticism-of-all-white-photo-shoot-the-industry-needs-to-become-more-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/12\/24\/jessica-chastain-responds-to-criticism-of-all-white-photo-shoot-the-industry-needs-to-become-more-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Chastain Responds to Criticism of All-White Photo Shoot: \u2018The Industry Needs to Become More Inclusive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the Los Angeles Times released <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/la-en-mn-lead-actress-roundtable-20171221-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">its actress-themed edition of the Envelope<\/a> earlier this week, readers instantly noticed something about the featured performers: All of them are white. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/jessica-chastain\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jessica-chastain\">Jessica Chastain<\/a> (&#8220;Molly&#8217;s Game&#8221;), Margot Robbie (&#8220;I, Tonya&#8221;), Diane Kruger (&#8220;In the Fade&#8221;), Saoirse Ronan (&#8220;Lady Bird&#8221;), Kate Winslet (&#8220;Wonder Wheel&#8221;), and Annette Bening (&#8220;Film Stars Don&#8217;t Die in Liverpool&#8221;) lead the cover story, with Chastain \u2014 who\u2019s outspoken about inequality within the film industry \u2014 taking much of the criticism online.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/12\/jessica-chastain-mollys-game-1201909281\/\" title=\"Jessica Chastain Takes Aim at the Patriarchy in \u2018Molly\u2019s Game\u2019: Awards Season Spotlight Profile\">Jessica Chastain Takes Aim at the Patriarchy in \u2018Molly\u2019s Game\u2019: Awards Season Spotlight Profile<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her defense, which she shared on Twitter, was that the lack of diversity in the story is reflective of a larger systemic issue. \u201cIts a sad look that there&#8217;s no WOC in this pic of us promoting our female lead films. The industry needs to become more inclusive in its storytelling. What were your favorite WOC lead films this year? I LOVED @salmahayek in #BeatriceAtDinner,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jes_chastain\/status\/944745093445111808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">she tweeted<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Its TERRIBLE that I can&#8217;t think of at least 5 female lead films with woc this year,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jes_chastain\/status\/944745855705370625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">she added<\/a>. &#8220;In 12 months there&#8217;s not even 5?!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/12\/jessica-chastain-harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-1201906923\/\" title=\"Jessica Chastain on Speaking Up About Harvey Weinstein: \u2018I\u2019m Really Terrified I\u2019m Destroying My Career\u2019\">Jessica Chastain on Speaking Up About Harvey Weinstein: \u2018I\u2019m Really Terrified I\u2019m Destroying My Career\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chastain&#8217;s followers mentioned both Mary J. Blige in &#8220;Mudbound&#8221; and Tiffany Haddish in &#8220;Girls Trip&#8221; as worthy contenders, to which the actress responded that, though she admired both, they were supporting rather than lead performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Its a sad look that there&#8217;s no WOC in this pic of us promoting our female lead films. The industry needs to become more inclusive in its storytelling. What were your favorite WOC lead films this year? I LOVED <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/salmahayek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@salmahayek<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BeatriceAtDinner?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#BeatriceAtDinner<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tzoijwy88q\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/tzoijwy88q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jes_chastain\/status\/944745093445111808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Los Angeles Times released its actress-themed edition of the Envelope earlier this week, readers instantly noticed something about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Hs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}