Charlotte Rampling says Oscars controversy comments ‘misinterpreted’

Charlotte Rampling has backtracked on her controversial comments she made about the Oscars diversity row.

The 69-year-old actresses said her remarks “could have been misinterpreted” on a CBS Sunday Morning interview with Anthony Mason that will air on January 24, per CBS News.

And finally, the French-American Oscar-nominated writer and director Julie Delpy from Before Sunset fame recently said at the Sundance Film Festival that being a female director means being “muzzled” and that she’d rather be “an African-American” because they are essentially treated better. “These days everyone is more or less accepted”, she said.

File picture of British actress Charlotte Rampling receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 28th European Film Award ceremony in Berlin December 12, 2015.

Others including actors George Clooney, Mark Ruffalo, Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo, Viola Davis, and British director Steve McQueen have spoken of their disappointment with the lack of diversity among the nominees.

The simmering controversy over this year’s all-white list of Oscar nominees has created a wedge in Hollywood that’s casting some actors and producers as defenders of the Motion Picture Academy’s choices against those calling for a boycott.

Rampling’s stance on diversity was very different than that of her peers. “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'”.

Rampling told French radio station Europe 1 that a growing boycott the 88th Academy Awards is actually “racist to whites”. “It took me years to get an Oscar”, said Caine, who won his first Oscar in 1987 for his supporting role in “Hannah and Her Sisters”.

Isaacs unveiled the organisation’s plans for the future on Friday, saying in a statement: “The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up”.

After her comments received heavy backlash, including from Chelsea Clinton, Charlotte released a statement claiming her words were misinterpreted.

The actress echoed former Oscar victor Sir Michael Caine who told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday: “You can’t vote for an actor because he’s black”.

‘You have to give a good performance and I’m sure people have. On feminism she said: “One of the reasons I don’t see eye to eye with Women’s Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don’t have to be pretty either”.

According to United States publication Deadline, Cheadle said: “I think it is a step in the right direction, a needed step”. Come check me out at #TheOscars this year.