Ever since Frances McDormand's speech at this year's Oscars following her win as best actress for 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri', the term 'inclusion riders' has been taking Hollywood by storm with various other talents pledging their allegiance. Michael B. Jordan, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have all announced that going forward, all of their projects will have inclusion riders.
The term 'inclusion rider' refers to the negotiation process that goes on behind the scenes of a film, and means that actors can demand that at least 50% of the cast and crew is representative, both sexually and racially, of the local population within which a film is being shot. Despite the recent advocation for such clauses in contracts, not everyone feels obliged to use them, at least according to USA Today. The news outlet revealed Netflix as one of those companies.
The news comes following a statement released by the company's founder and executive producer, Reed Hastings who mentioned, "we're not so big on doing everything through agreements". Hastings continued that, "we're trying to do things creatively".
Paul Feig
On 13th March, producer, director and screenplay writer, Paul Feig announced via his Twitter that he'd also be adopting inclusion riders in his production company Feigco Entertainment.
Thrilled to announce that Feigco Entertainment is officially adopting an #inclusionrider for all our film and TV productions moving forward. Thank you to @Inclusionists and Stacy L. Smith for their guidance and inspiration. We challenge other companies and studios to do the same.
? Paul Feig (@paulfeig) March 13, 2018
