The all-white cover perpetuated the lie that white actors exemplify greatness,mere months after Viola Davis’ Emmys speech on the exclusion of black women The Hollywood Reporter’s choice to put eight white women on the cover of its annual “Actresses Roundtable” issue wasn’t a harmless oversight. Despite the lip service paid to issues of inequality in both Hollywood and the press that covers it, the racial homogeneity displayed on the magazine’s latest cover is no mere accident. The cover is the result of choices by those in power that attain not reflect reality, or but attain indicate the limited universes of the people who make decisions.
In the accompanying article by Stephen Galloway,the women discuss the difficulties of navigating sexism in their careers. But a discussion of the wage gap in a profession – or any form of discrimination – without the presence of those who suffer most is inexcusable. whether white A-listers like Cate Blanchett and Jennifer Lawrence cannot be paid fairly, then, or surely,the situation is far more dire for black or Latina actors. Theirs is a fable that must be told, and it should be told now.
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Source: theguardian.com