Daniel Craig Shuts Down Reporter for Asking If Phoebe Waller-Bridge Was a Bond Diversity Hire, Saying "She’s a fucking great writer"
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He might actually be bout that “gender/race/sexuality don’t matter, only talent does“ life. BUT does he understand that things are so jacked up concerning those issues that you have to not only address it, but keep it going?
Great response and it's absolutely ridiculous that someone needs to even ask that question.
Of course he is implying that it shouldn't even be up for discussion that the gender roles should be blurred beyond recognition and not made an issue of.
People even asking the question, as if it is a diversity hire are just fueling the knuckleheads who think it's a problem that women are involved in projects designed historically around men
Of course he is implying that it shouldn't even be up for discussion that the gender roles should be blurred beyond recognition and not made an issue of.
People even asking the question, as if it is a diversity hire are just fueling the knuckleheads who think it's a problem that women are involved in projects designed historically around men
I think it’s the former. I wouldn’t necessarily think he thinks deliberate attempts to diversify are a bad thing. The question seems disingenuous.
I interpretted it as the former. Reads like he finds it offensive that they are implying she was brought on as a diversity hire and not because she is incredibly talented.
He's always good at calling them out, during the Spectre press tour he did the same when somebody reffered to Monica Bellucci as an older woman.
Hmm. I took it as he believes conscious attempts at not achieving better representation is offensive, tho somewhat diplomatically responded as tho it was the former.
I'll bet anyone $10 that this gets turned into a "Daniel Craig doesn't understand the importance of diversity!" think piece.
I think that largely depends on how the question about Waller-Bridge's hiring was phrased. I can't find a transcript of the actual interview.
Perfection.
Also - it's fairly clear that the question upset Craig because he thinks she should be judged on her merits - not her gender, etc. It seems the interviewer is implying she was a diversity hire from the phrasing of the question.
Oh I have to find that. Sounds glorious.
Also - Monica Belluci will be gorgeous at age 120. No idea why age matters.
I think it's the former, but I get your confusion, as I asked myself the same question while reading the article.
I agree, seemed to be simply irked by the inquiry and rebutted with the appropriate level of ire.
Paging the Presidents of USA, Phillipines, Brazil and whenever Berlusconi is President of Italy again
So stupid, what else does phoebe have to do in order to 'earn the right' to write for the movie besides them thinking she is a diversity hire.
It's like the same chucklefucks who were angry at brie larson, an academy award winner and lover of geek culture, somehow not deserving to play captain marvel. Some people are just so spiteful.
Good on craig for not mincing words.
It's like the same chucklefucks who were angry at brie larson, an academy award winner and lover of geek culture, somehow not deserving to play captain marvel. Some people are just so spiteful.
Good on craig for not mincing words.
I kind of want to read the question as asked because both yahoo and indiewire seem to frame it differently.
But the paywall put up by The Times robs me of some crucial nuance in how the question was asked in the first place given the subtle but kind of important disparity between Yahoo's recap and IW's headline.
Yahoo said:
Indiewire's headline said:
So it's hard to know if the words "diversity hire" came out from The Times or was just shorthand added after the fact by IW. It's good for Daniel Craig to deny the framing in that vocabulary, because why use the language of people opposed to "forced diversity?"Indiewire's text said:
But the paywall put up by The Times robs me of some crucial nuance in how the question was asked in the first place given the subtle but kind of important disparity between Yahoo's recap and IW's headline.
Imagine being an accomplished screenwriter, who's won awards and put together some of the most critically acclaimed shows in the last few years and having some fucking idiot reduce you down to 'diversity hire"