Queen Latifah Speaks Out About 'Gone With The Wind' & Hattie McDaniel In New Interview

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was pulled from the streaming service weeks ago.

gone from HBO Max, having been restored to the streaming service’s library with a new prologue about the film’s problematic themes and depictionof the antebellum South.Jacqueline Stewart, host of TCM’s “Silent Sunday Nights” and a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, leads the 4 ½-minute intro, which starts off with a general cinematic lesson — recounting the eight Academy Awards (including for Best Picture) won in 1939 by the “highly anticipated”

LOS ANGELES — Movie classic “Gone with the Wind” returned to the HBO Max streaming platform on Wednesday, along with two extra features discussing its depiction of race in the Civil War era.

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Queen Latifah has declared she has mixed emotions about the decision by HBO Max executives to reinstate Gone With the Wind.The movie was pulled from the streaming service earlier this month after film critics suggested the racist and slavery undertones of the story were inappropriate following weeks of Black Lives Matter protests.Do the Right Thing filmmaker Spike Lee then urged HBO Max bosses to reconsider, and the film will now return to the site with an introduction from Jacqueline Stewart, a

Amid the Black Lives Matter protests all around the world, the movie Gone with the Wind was taken off HBO Max since it has a controversial message that people have criticized for a long time. That being said, the classic film is set to return to the streaming platform, this time alongside an added intro done by Jacqueline Stewart, a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago and host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies.

yanked it June 9 because of its “racist depictions” in the wake of the killing of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police last month, which led to mass protests worldwide. Now the network is planning to take its time in bringing it back to an audience.“We are being slow and careful, and I think that’s the right response.

will soon be available once again on HBO Max, but Queen Latifah is fine with it remaining .The streaming service announced that when the 1939 Civil War drama becomes available this time around, it will include an introduction by Jacqueline Stewart, host of on Turner Classic Movies and professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.Latifah, however, isn't so keen on it coming back.

Queen Latifah said she supports HBO Max’s controversial decision to remove “Gone with the Wind” from its library due to racial sensitivity. The 1939 Oscar-winning film set during the Civil War was removed from the platform due to concerns over its depiction of black people from that era amid heightened sensitivity to racial issues sparked by the death of George Floyd.

Also Read: New Episodes of 'Live PD', 'Cops' Pulled Amid George Floyd ProtestsKelly also shared a clip from The Daily Caller of Hattie McDaniel becoming the first black actress to accept an Academy Award for playing the role of Mammy in the film.Kelly then played a game saying that other shows and movies that could be considered offensive and would need to be removed from the airwaves, name dropping “Friends,” “Game of Thrones,” “Law and Order” and the films of John Hughes and Woody Allen.“Ok

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NEW YORK -- HBO Max has temporarily removed “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming library in order to add historical context to the 1939 film long criticized for romanticizing slavery and the Civil War-era South. Protests in the wake of George Floyd's death have forced entertainment companies to grapple with the appropriateness of both current and past productions.

has long been held up as one of the most revered movies in cinema, even though it contains several racist tropes and roles. It also happens to be the , if numbers are adjusted for inflation.