’12 Years A Slave’ Screenwriter John Ridley Explains Why He Feels ‘Lucky To Be A Black Man’ In Film

John Ridley scored a career miracle when he was awarded an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in “12 Years A Slavestreak of farrago issues

“It’s formidable all a approach around. And initial and foremost, equal entrance is satisfactory entrance is something we have to address. And it’s some-more than only if David [Oyelowo] got a assignment or not,” Ridley pronounced to horde Ricky Camilleri during a HuffPost Live shred on Tuesday. “If we demeanour in a TV space and demeanour during how few womanlike directors are working. How few females are in a game…Latinas, Asian-Americans…”

“Unfortunately, and we meant this somewhat kidding, I’m propitious to be a black male in a attention right now and where we am,” he admitted. “So to start with either it’s entertainment, either it’s a automotive industry, either it’s a dot com business, satisfactory and equal entrance for everybody is undeniably important. And it’s quite critical for us as storytellers. To try to tell stories to a universe we all have to have hurdles and opposite points of perspective if we’re going to put them out into a space.”

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