. But alongside his more comedic roles, or his turns as the charming action hero, the 43-year-old hasn't shied away from psychologically darker characters.
23.04.2024 - 06:44 / deadline.com
David Mamet is against the initiatives in Hollywood to create diversity, equity, and inclusion, referred to as DEI.
“DEI is garbage,” the author said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, as the Los Angeles Times reported. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
Mamet has a particular gripe about the inclusion rules the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has implemented for films to be considered in the Oscar Best Picture category.
“I can’t give you a stupid f***ing statue unless you have 7% of this, 8% of that … it’s intrusive,” Mamet said.
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He also said, “The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department.”
Regarding nepotism in Hollywood, Mamet doesn’t think his kids have benefitted from his accomplishments in the industry and rather says they learned from being on set, earning them a spot.
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“They earned it by merit,” Mamet said about his daughter Zosia Mamet, who starred in HBO’s Girls and most recently in Marvel and Sony’s Madame Web. “They haven’t benefited from any type of privilege.”
He continued, “Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.”
Mamet’s latest book is titled Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood. In the playwright’s memoir, he “describes a world gone by, some of our most beloved film stars with their hair down, and how it all got washed away by digital media and the woke brigade.”
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. But alongside his more comedic roles, or his turns as the charming action hero, the 43-year-old hasn't shied away from psychologically darker characters.
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the Telegraph, admitting that the ordeal was “rough.”“This is not grandfather’s day, this is parents’ day. I say ‘I am a parent!’,” he told the outlet.
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Breaking Bad, he once considered arranging his own murder so his kids could inherit his life insurance.The actor shared his story on a recent episode of SiriusXM’s Jim & Sam show while promoting his new AMC drama series Parish.Esposito considered arranging his own murder in 2008, a year before he landed the iconic role of Gus Fring on Breaking Bad, a part that inextricably changed his career and opened the door for roles in The Mandalorian, The Boys and more.Asked how he narrowly avoided bankruptcy in 2008, Esposito said: “My way out in my brain was: ‘Hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide? Do they get the bread?’ My wife had no idea why I was asking this stuff. I started scheming.“If I got somebody to knock me off, death by misadventure, [my kids] would get the insurance.
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