Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Amazon Studios Rolling Out Diversity Playbook in Europe and Globally
Variety: The Amazon Studios Inclusion Policy and Playbook released last June in the U.S. is reverberating in the streaming giant’s productions around the world.
Casting Roles with Nudity: Body Checks and Why They Never Should Have Existed
HowlRound Theatre Commons: In the spring of 2021, the final semester of my undergraduate acting program, we had a routine Q&A session with a prominent casting director in Los Angeles to prepare for our end-of-the-year showcase. I, an emerging intimacy director, asked him about his experience with intimacy in the industry and what he knew of the professional casting process when the role involved nudity. To my dismay, he began to explain what he referred to as “body checks” that were performed at callbacks.
Hath Not a Jew Roles? A Case for Authentic Jewish Casting
AMERICAN THEATRE: My first full-length play to be produced in New York City was called A Shylock. It was about Shakespeare, and it was about anti-Semitism. The lead, a character named Jack Levy, was played by a talented actor who still frequently works with me, 25 years later. As it happens, he is not Jewish. At the time I thought nothing of it.
Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start
The Verge: TheThe first embroidery stitch María Méndez Rodríguez learned at the age of 7 was the chain stitch. It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. At 42, Méndez has mastered advanced stitches like the closed buttonhole and rococo. She’s now diving back into the drawing process, trying to evolve from the traditional motifs of flowers and leaves she embroiders on blouses to better reflect the flora in her community.
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Why the Rust Shooting Didn’t Change Hollywood
The Atlantic: For more than 30 years, Bill Davis’s job has been to help famous people look like they know what they’re doing with a gun. As an armorer working in Hollywood, Davis teaches movie stars how to properly handle firearms, and some are fast learners: He helped train Tom Cruise on the set of the film Collateral and walked away impressed with the actor’s form. Others require a little more instruction; Davis said he once had to scold Danny Glover for pulling the trigger too early during a scene in Saw.
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