I did not “shit on the fact that you linked to Gawker.” What I said was, and I will quote, “That’s literally one article. My point is there should be a hell of a lot more articles like that before we start focusing on the problems of indie filmmakers.”

You’re sure being hostile for someone who isn’t attacking me. And I never said it couldn’t have people of color in it. Again, I have no control over who was in this movie. I cannot make the Coen Brothers recast this movie and re-shoot it with different actors.

Good thing I never said that then, isn’t it?

Okay, I see, you are interested in just picking a fight and not trying to have a substantive discussion. My mistake. Goodbye.

I want the someone who just replied to me named sixiebubs to stop being so unnecessary hostile, please.

Look, I didn’t make this movie and I didn’t cast it and I didn’t even know it existed until I read this article, so please stop attacking me like I’m somehow responsible and maybe we can have a discussion.

That’s literally one article. My point is there should be a hell of a lot more articles like that before we start focusing on the problems of indie filmmakers. As I said, if this was a regular series, I wouldn’t be criticizing it, but this is an oddly specific target of a much bigger problem with much more obvious…

It remains to be seen whether they can sustain this joke for two hours, but erstwhile Doctor Who star Matt Smith will be playing Mr. Collins, if that influences your decision-making.

But until we know their motivations for casting, this is all idle speculation and feels uncomfortably witch hunty to me specifically because, as you said, the Coens clearly don’t have a problem casting people of color in other films.

Do they exist in more mainstream places like here on Jezebel? I certainly haven’t seen them. I would rather see regular articles about the lack of POC representation in mainstream films on a regular basis than what indie darlings like the Coens are doing, and I feel like the Coens are an easier target than the big…

Hey, there’s supposed to be a 48 hour waiting period to give her time to respond before you review her BathTED talk.

And here is where we absolutely differ. I do not think it helps in any way to group the Coens in with ‘insecure, racist AF, old, out of touch white men’ just because of this one specific film. I think that’s an unfair characterization which only fuels the criticism that the very real concern of underrepresentation of…

But that’s what I’m saying- this is focusing on a single movie rather than the fact that there’s an overall problem. It’s not seeing the forest for the trees.

That was a totally necessary passive-aggressive response to nothing I actually said. Thanks.

That greatly depended on the studio. Some studios did not employ people of color.

I don’t think it’s an excuse exactly. At the end of the day, movies are stylistic choices made by the filmmakers. We have no idea what the filmmakers’ motivations were in making the choice not to cast any black actors in this specific film, but why assume there was anything racially biased about it? What indication is…

It also doesn’t stop them from not making those choices. And I don’t see why it is necessarily a bad thing to have no people of color in a single movie. I think that’s not seeing the forest for the trees... especially when there’s certainly no indication that the Coens have a history of racism or made a conscious…

So all historical movies should be full of anachronisms all the time and no one should care? Or maybe it’s just that those movies made deliberate stylistic choices to be anachronistic and that was sort of the point.

I just don’t think this is an issue either way. I certainly don’t think it’s worth complaining about a single movie with an all-white cast as if that’s now the norm. I am very happy we have a lot of movies with diverse casts and people of color in leading roles which win them the awards they very much deserve, but I…

All of the people you mentioned except Dandridge and Poitier were musical performers who occasionally had a film role, not Hollywood regulars. Dandridge struggled to remain relevant as a black actress and Poitier was specifically known for helping to break the Hollywood color barrier (at the very end of the Golden Age…