Toronto: Ava DuVernay Talks Black Representation in Hollywood: "The World Has Changed"
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hollywoodreporter.comAva DuVernay says the time is long overdue for Hollywood to wake up to being too white and too male and allowing more representation from women and people of color into its top ranks. "I've been in a lot of spaces where I'm the only woman, the only Black person, the only person of color," the Selma director told a masterclass at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday.
She argued the current racial reckoning around the Black Lives Matter protests compels the entertainment industry to welcome greater diversity and inclusion. "Now I walk in, like, 'why am I the only one?
What's wrong with you? Why don't you have more people here?' And I think the world has changed in that way where you can walk in and say there's no way that the people who are.
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