One anonymous actor telling The Woman King team to 'sit down, shut up, and relax' suggests an insidious attitude inside the Academy
, a film he didn’t see: “Viola Davis and the lady director need to sit down, shut up, and relax. You didn’t get a nomination—a lot of movies don’t get nominations.
”Not all the revelations from these anonymous ballots are so incendiary voice in The Actor. “The Academy has bent over backwards to be inclusive,” he complains. “Last year, there were more Black people presenting.”
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