Sask. Aboriginal actor supports Native Americans who walked off set
It’s not easy for Aboriginal actors to get cast in good roles but Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company’s Daniel Knight said it’s time for Hollywood to stop using offensive indigenous characters.
On Wednesday about a dozen Native actors, actresses, and the Native cultural advisor left the set of Adam Sandler’s newest film production. They said the satirical western called ‘The Ridiculous Six’ was insulting to native women and elders and misrepresented Apache culture.
“I was proud they walked off set. That the money and all of that and Hollywood didn’t make them forgo their values,” Knight said, adding the script seemed very offensive.
“Some of the names, when I first read them, I was like ‘whoa!’ Like Beaver Breath and what they had them doing, like peeing while smoking the peace pipe, I was like ‘whoa!’”