Charlotte Rampling: Oscar comments were misinterpreted

Actresses Charlotte Rampling has said the controversy over there being no black actors on the Oscars shortlist is unfair to the white actors who were nominated. “Problems will always be sought [people say] “him, he’s less attractive”, “him, he is too black”, “him, he is too white”… there will always be someone who comes out saying ‘you are too something'”. “And so we’re going to classify everything to make thousands of little minorities everywhere?”

However, the 37-year-old singer, added he does not have any stand on the protests by fans and celebrities against ignorance of colour artists in 88th Oscars, reported E!

David Oyelowo, the British star of Selma, a biopic about Martin Luther King, said: “For actors of colour to be missed a year ago is one thing; for that to happen again is unforgivable”.

The all-white list of nominated actors for the Oscars 2016 has not just inspired a boycott, but it also made a division in Hollywood.

And thanks to the advocacy from outspoken folks such as Jada Pinkett-Smith, Will Smith, Spike Lee, Lupita Nyong’o and Viola Davis, we have seen the Oscars create a new academy policy and non-people of color like George Clooney and Marc Ruffalo standing up in solidarity.

“The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up”, said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

By Friday evening, she was on board: “Diversity in our industry is an important issue that needs to be addressed”, her statement continued.

Chelsea Clinton fired back on Twitter at the actress, linking to a CNN article about Rampling’s remarks and calling them “outrageous, ignorant & offensive”. This is specifically for those who are casting some producers and actors of the Academy’s choices against those who are rising up for a no-show this year, according to Fox News.

Speaking on the Today Show on Radio 4, Caine said on Friday: “There’s loads of black actors”.

“I’m squarely in what I would call the mentorship phase of my life”, said Sam Weisman, who has been a member of the Academy’s directors’ branch since 1998, but has had no directing credit since “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” in 2003.

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

Washington D.C., January 23: As the controversy over diversity debate embroiling the Academy Awards continues, Sir Michael Caine is the latest actor to speak out on the issue.