Joel Coen Reacts Angrily To Diversity Criticism

In the upcoming movie ‘Hail, Caesar!’, most of the cast is white.  Dolph Lundgren is in this movie by the way. Anyway, while promoting the movie and speaking to TheDailyBeast, they were asked to address the “overwhelming whiteness” of the movie in the face of ongoing discussions about Hollywood’s low level of diversity. “I asked the Coens to respond to criticisms that there aren’t more minority characters in the film,” the editor wrote. “In other words, why is #HailCaesarSoWhite?”

“Why would there be?” replied Joel. “I don’t understand the question. No — I understand that you’re asking the question, I don’t understand where the question comes from.

“Not why people want more diversity — why they would single out a particular movie and say, ‘Why aren’t there black or Chinese or Martians in this movie? What’s going on?’ That’s the question I don’t understand. The person who asks that question has to come in the room and explain it to me.”

I wonder in the heat of her interrogation, if the interviewer even realised that the Coens aren’t white.