Hollywood actor Matt Damon and
director is in the spotlight but not for a positive act he appeared on the
reality series Project Greenlight when the awkward moment with Effie Brown
arose.
Matt Damon has been
criticised by television viewers and on social media after he interrupted a
black female producer to lecture her on diversity.
The HBO show, which also
features the Oscar winner's long-time collaborator Ben Affleck, gives
first-time film-makers $3m to direct their own movie.
Damon and Brown, who has
produced many films including Dear White People, were discussing the plot to
one of the films when Brown spoke of her concerns that the only black character
was a prostitute.
She suggested that the
project would benefit from a diverse directing team.
"I just would want to
urge people to think about, whoever this director is, the way they're going to
treat the character of Harmony. Her being a prostitute, the only black person
being a hooker who gets hit by her white pimp," she said.
Damon did not agree, instead he interrupted her by saying that diversity is "what you do in the
casting of the movie, not the casting of the show," according to report.

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