Adam Sandler’s Latest Movie Is So Racist And Awful That Native American Extras Are Walking Out En Masse
How is Adam Sandler still a thing?
The continued existence of Adam Sandler has been baffling scientists for years now. Who is this pasty, nasal creature? What purpose does he serve now that his erstwhile audience has grown up and left him behind? How does he lure talented actors into debasing themselves in his garbage projects? And how does he keep getting funding from studios? These are important questions, which science is no closer to answering despite burning up our hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Get on it, science.
Back in February word got out that Sandler’s latest project (read: flaming heap of car tyres), a Western spoof called The Ridiculous Six, had found a home at Netflix as part of a four-movie contract Sandler scored with the streaming service in October 2014, which is proof enough of the man’s dark magic. Joss Whedon couldn’t get a full season of Firefly out of FOX, and Adam Sandler gets a four-movie deal with friggin’ Netflix and responds by saying — and this is absolutely true — “I immediately said yes [to the deal] for one reason and one reason only … Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks.” Comedy!
Filming’s currently underway in New Mexico, but it’s hit a snag; around a dozen Navajo actors hired to play Apache Indians have walked off-set because the “script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture.” According to the Indian Country Today Media Network:
“The examples of disrespect included Native women’s names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.”
Several Navajo actors told the Network they were initially uncomfortable about doing the movie for fears of being portrayed as “Hollywood Indians,” but were assured the production would have a cultural consultant. Soon, though, “things started getting weird on the set,” with stereotypical and incorrect costumes provided and complaints from Native actors ignored or dismissed by producers, prompting the walk-off.
“Our dignity is not for sale,” one of the actors told the Network. “We understand this is a comedy, we understand this is humor, but we won’t tolerate disrespect. I told the director if he had talked to a native woman the way they were talked to in this movie—I said I would knock his ass out.”
The Ridiculous Six, by the way, has a cast including Nick Nolte and Steve Buscemi, who better owe Adam Sandler a kidney or something because that’s the only reason they should be doing films with Adam fucking Sandler in this day and age.