Gail Lerner Answers Prentice Penny’s Call & Vows To Help Even The Sliding Scale As She Shares Her Own TV Blackface Experience – Guest Column
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deadline.comGail Lerner Editors Note: Earlier this week, Prentice Penny, showrunner of HBO’s Insecure, wrote a guest column this week for Deadline reflecting on the recent string of high-profile comedy series pulling older episodes featuring blackface scenes.
In it, he wrote about Hollywood’s “sliding scale” that made it possible for so many episodes of so many series to make it through all layers of approval to the air with the offensive material.
He called upon peers to “be uncomfortable and accountable,” urging them to make 60% of their shows’ staffs on every level people of color.
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