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05.03.2024 - 20:11 / deadline.com
A lawsuit filed by a SEAL Team script coordinator and freelancer who claims he was denied a writing position because he’s a straight white guy has already struck a chord with fellow scribes.
Many took to X to express their frustration with freelance scribe Brian Beneker, who says in the complaint that he suffered by not being part of “the favored hiring groups; that is, they were nonwhite, LGBTQ, or female.” He also called out the “illegal policy” of diversity, equity and inclusion measures.
Beneker, who has worked on SEAL Team since 2017 and before that was a script coordinator on Sons of Anarchy, claims in 2019 that he questioned current showrunner Spencer Hudnut over why previous showrunner John Glenn had hired a new male writer when Glenn claimed at the time that “there were already too many staff writers and there was no room for CBS to hire [Beneker].”
“Hudnut indicated it was because he was Black,” the complaint says.
While continuing his job as script coordinator, Beneker wrote three episodes of the David Boreanaz-led series in 2019. He has another one supposedly set to air as the eighth episode of the series’ upcoming seventh and final season. His suit is backed by former Trump White House advisor Stephen Miller’s nonprofit America First Legal Foundation.
Many writers called Beneker’s bluff by either citing UCLA’s annual Hollywood diversity report, or calling out his past performance.
“I worked with this guy in 2000–I was a writer, he was a script coordinator and a seriously odd duck THEN,” wrote Jorge A. Reyes (Queen of the South) on X. “He thinks never gotten a staff writer job in 24 years because he’s white? …. Now, in an effort to not face that truth, he links up with Trump’s Minister of Information in
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his bombshell memoir “Spare.”“I have some nice pictures of him in the buff,” Reichart, 52, told the Sun.Reichert claims she kissed the Duke of Sussex, who was 27 at the time, on a night out at the Encore suite at Wynn Las Vegas back in 2012.“I never released these pictures before out of respect,” she told the outlet. “Now, it doesn’t matter.
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The DEI wars raging in Red State America have made their long-expected arrival in Hollywood. With support from one of Donald Trump‘s closest aides, a SEAL Team staffer has filed a discrimination lawsuit against CBS and Paramount Global claiming he was denied a writing position on the show because of being a straight white guy.
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