Charlotte Rampling really regrets her racist comments

Oscar-nominated acting legend Charlotte Rampling made quite a few people angry on Friday when she declared that all of the controversy surrounding the extreme whiteness of this year’s Academy Awards was “racist” towards white people.

After receiving a backlash, Charlotte – who is nominated for Best Actress for her role in “45 Years” – has now attempted to clarify her remarks, releasing an official statement in which she claimed she was “misinterpreted”.

Rampling (69) told France’s Europe 1 radio yesterday that, while it’s impossible to know for sure, “maybe the black actors didn’t deserve to be in the final stretch”.

She added that a quota system to ensure diversity in the future was not neccessary.

In a statement to CBS Sunday Morning, she explained that the comment was taken the wrong way.

He told the BBC there are plenty of strong performances by non-white actors this year, including Idris Elba’s “wonderful” work in “Beasts of No Nation” – which did not receive an Oscar nomination. “Why classify people? These days everyone is more or less accepted”.

Today the Academy announced major plans to combat the problem, including the decision to appoint three new members to the 51-person board of governors and review each member’s voting rights every ten years, dependent on how active they are in the film industry over that decade.

“We can not support it and (I) mean no disrespect … but, how is it possible for the second consecutive year all 20 contenders under the acting category are white?”

Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith and husband Will Smith have all since confirmed they will not be attending the February 28th ceremony because of the nominations’ lack of diversity. “There are always questions about whether such-and-such a person is less handsome, such-and-such is too black, such-and-such is too blonde”.

Asked if the black community in the film industry felt like a minority, she replied: “No comment”.

“So basically are we saying we are going to put everyone and everything into one class or another to create lots of minority groups everywhere?”

Since Charlotte initially commented, the Academy announced pending reforms to address membership diversification.

She later added that her comments had been “misinterpreted”.