Inclusion Riders in Film

In April, Michael B. Jordan was the first major actor to adopt inclusion riders for his company "Outlier Society Productions." Inclusion riders are clauses that require filmmakers to have a certain number/percentage of diverse actors in their films, so it might require a cast be a certain percent female, certain percent disabled people, or a certain people of color. Warner Bros and HBO similarly created a policy to have more women and people of color in their films, although they did not create an actual clause or say any specific percentages.


I am wondering if women of color are left out of these "percentages," or even disabled women of color, or queer disabled women of color. If white women fill the women quota and men of color fill the people of color percentage, then where are women of color, non-binary, LGTBQ, and/or disabled people? Does this exclude them in the generalized categories of "gay," "female," and "person of color," or create space for them? It seems to implicitly leave out people who have multiple marginalized identities.

The Warner Bros 2020 movie "Just Mercy" starring Michael B. Jordan will be the first movie to come out under their new public commitment to diversity policy. The cast on IMDB looks like a lot of black men but also a lot of white women.

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