Actor-comedians David Spade and Dana Carvey have suggested that Hollywood should quit focusing on race and gender, calling it a “little diminishing” to individual accomplishments.
\n\nThe former Saturday Night Live alums shared their thoughts about Hollywood’s handling of race and gender issues during an episode of their Fly on the Wall podcast. Spade began by saying the insistence on race and gender leads to separation.
\n\n“On race, let me just say at any of these award shows, I saw a clip the other day saying, ‘And this gentleman won, and he’s the first Black director to win for this documentary,’ I wish they would quit saying that because I think everyone we can’t all be equal to you,” Spade said.
\n\n“‘Oh, the first in 30 years to have a Black actor win this.’ If you just say we’re all actors . . .now this is my point of view, that it just makes it more even and not, we’re all just the same. We’re all acting,” he added.
\n\nSpade recalled how producers on the hit NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me would regularly inform him and the cast when a female director would be working with them that week.
\n\n“I [would]…
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