ABC s Big Sky has drawn claims of exclusion and misrepresentation.
Activists and leaders in the industry say that Hollywood has significant outreach work to do: There s not parity in terms of the Native community getting an equal amount of support with what the other communities are getting.
On Dec. 2, Indigenous groups protesting the lack of Native and Indigenous female representation on the ABC procedural
Big Sky sent a message that they won t be backing down anytime soon. Not long after the show s executive producers responded for the first time to the weeks-long protest saying that their eyes had been opened and they had started working with Indigenous groups dozens more tribes joined the anti-
Illustration by Matt Collins You Want to See Yourself in Cartoons : Animation Pros Talk Inclusivity, Recasting Roles and What Still Needs to Be Done
by Carolyn Giardina
December 11, 2020, 6:00am PST
With Hollywood’s animation ranks loaded with traditional-track hires, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse director Peter Ramsey, Big Mouth new voice Ayo Edebiri, Sony Pictures Animation exec Karen Rupert Toliver and veteran actress Cree Summer discuss what it will take to ramp up representation: What s on the screens that s the artifice.
Amid a wider conversation within the entertainment industry about representation, the past year has seen some signs of change in its animation sector, both onscreen and off. From the recasting of biracial characters with BIPOC voice actors on Netflix s