00:00I don't look at color or religion and anything as something that needs to separate us.
00:08I just go for what I feel and what I love and what makes me laugh and what moves me.
00:20I try to show up and not shy away from questions like that and to in every choice I make in
00:28my working life to have the room represent the world around me.
00:33And I happen to work with a man, Ryan Murphy, for whom diversity and inclusion has always
00:38been the most important driving force in all of his projects, so I have always looked around
00:43and see a room that represents what I see outside of that room, but I know not everybody
00:47has that great good fortune.
00:49I should be just the one supporting everybody.
00:51I'm not the guy who should be out there like banging the drum about diversity.
00:56I think it's great that people are making their own stories about their own neighborhoods,
01:01their own parts of the world, their own families and all that.
01:05But I don't think that prevents someone, I don't think it prevents you from, if you find
01:11a short story that you love, you go, God, this would make a great movie.
01:13I think the more people make all kinds of stories, the better.
01:18Yes, there has been an unfairness in the makeup, I guess, of the academy and other organizations,
01:24for sure.
01:25I think there have been some steps made to make that a little better.
01:29We've got a long way to go, just like we have a long way to go in society in general.
01:33When I got lucky and said, I'm going to start producing, I was like, I'm going to cast how
01:36I feel like casting.
01:38I worked with female directors long before everyone was going to work with female directors.
01:42Everybody in this industry is only employed for a couple of months as well, and nobody
01:47really wants to be the one to step out and go like, oh, I'm putting my foot down.
01:50Because you want to get hired again, so everybody's scared to stand out, everybody's scared to
01:54take a stance, because we're so fireable, everybody's so fireable, and you need people to be brave.
02:00I like to think of, I'm a man of action.
02:02I hire a lot of diverse female filmmakers.
02:07I am always very conscious that all of the stories that I tell are super diverse, and to
02:14me it boils down to mostly action.
02:17Because people of color have historically been undervalued, we have wound up working with
02:26a ton of people of color for that exact reason.
02:29I'm very dedicated to it, and committed to it.
02:34Not because it's altruistic, because it's great business.
02:36I can have the discussion on every movie that I'm on, and I can question why we're not more
02:42diverse in our casting.
02:43I think that if I'm a filmmaker one day, I can make that decision as well.
02:48If I'm the main guy in something, I can really exert that power.
02:52I mean, I think it all comes down to the creative, you know, and working with creative people.
02:58There's no color when it comes to creativity, I think it's just whoever brings it, brings
03:02it.
03:03I had the privilege of working with some extraordinary people on this, and that was such a pleasure.
03:09So I look at it from the creative.
03:11I'm very proud to be a part of a movie that is putting diversity front and center.
03:16There should be lots and lots and lots more of those movies, and I want to be a part of
03:22as many of those films and projects and television shows and anything else that I can be.
03:28I think the pendulum is finally starting to move.
03:31I think if you look this year, well last year it started, but you look this year for women.
03:35I'm looking and there's women doing unbelievable roles, and a lot of them.
03:41And I think it's because of streaming services like this, we're now making movies for everybody
03:46that we all want to go see.
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