The actor who will return soon in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier pointed to the lack of diversity at Marvel, especially behind the camera.
In the continuity of the Black Lives Matter movement, the audiovisual world has also started to become aware of racism and the representation of black characters on small and large screens. After the various controversies around the recontextualization ofGone with the wind on HBO Max (which has since returned), the series’ self-censorship 30 Rock and its blackfaces or the changes concerning the dubbing of Simpson, it’s Anthony Mackie who questions the diversity, or rather non-diversity, present at Marvel.
If for several years the studio wants to be more inclusive, brandishing in particular the success of Black Panther as proof of his progressiveness, the actor known to embody the Falcon in the MCU since Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and soon on Disney + in the series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier expected this year, strongly criticized behind the scenes at the recent podcast Actors on Actor of Variety :
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“It really bothered me to have made seven Marvel movies where every producer, every director, every stuntman, every costume designer, every production assistant, every individual was white.”
Regarding the 2018 film by Ryan Coogler, the first in the extended universe with a black superhero at the top of the poster, the actor was much less enthusiastic than the studio and the fans, accusing him of being racist given, according to him, that it would have been necessary to wait for a film to be mainly worn by a black cast before black people joined the production teams:
“We had a black producer, his name was Nate Moore. He produced Black Panther. And for Black Panther, you had a black director, a black producer, a black costume designer and a black stunt coordinator. And I tell myself that it’s more racist than anything else because if you can only hire black people for a film about black people, you are in fact saying that they are not good enough when you have a predominantly white cast? “
Part of the Black Panther cast
The actor therefore seems to reproach Marvel for not really put yourself at the service of the diversification of the MCU by making only punctual and not constant efforts, while favoring black directors or producers only when the films concern black characters (a bit like with the directors who are content for the moment to make films of superheroines, except for the next Eternals.) Actor Michael B. Jordan, who is also part of the cast of Black Panther, also reacted earlier in June to the lack of diversity behind Hollywood cameras.
In any case, for those who need to immerse themselves in Black Panther, our review of the film is right here. Anthony Mackie also starred in the second season of the Netflix series Altered Carbon, which we talk about there.
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