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In reply to the discussion: Hollywood's depiction of guns is fraudulent, says Dustin Hoffman [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Actor refuses to take a meeting about a gun heavy film. Execs meet with others, make a deal with one. Later, on another project, Execs refuse to meet with actor who did not want to do the gun movie for a light comedy or a costume drama. That is discrimination, when grudges are held and enforced to attempt to force artists to do material they do not care for. Violence is not the only such issue, many people faced discrimination because they turned down homophobic bullshit scripts,or because they did not want to do nudity, or because they found the film to be sexist or racist.
Many good straight artists lost work for saying 'I will not tell that joke, I will not play that stereotype for laughs'. And not just the work in the one film either.