Julia Fox is getting actual about why she departed a latest challenge — and, if true, it sounds fairly unhealthy.
The multi-multi-*multi*-hyphenate (critically, she’s at all times doing one thing totally different lately) not too long ago took to TikTok and revealed that she not too long ago left an upcoming and unnamed movie that she’d been hooked up to star in for 5 years.
@juliafox / Through tiktok.com
“I’ve given artistic contributions to it, emotional contributions to it, it was like my child,” she defined within the video. “I even introduced on, like, a serious, main A-list icon to play alongside me and the whole lot was going nice till this white man director got here in.”
Julia then went on to say that the director in query tried to kick her off of the movie totally, as a result of “I had talked about that I actually thought it was essential to have variety in our lead forged.”
“He mentioned, ‘Why? White individuals have it actually arduous, too,'” she alleges. “‘And plus, variety casting is like utilizing Black individuals as puppets.’”
Julia additionally alleged that the director went on to say that “‘White individuals don’t have an obligation to forged Black individuals as a result of so many Black initiatives occur and Asian initiatives and no one will get mad that there’s no white individuals within the forged.’”
“He mentioned, ‘Activate Netflix, activate any streamer, it’s all Black initiatives. Go to India, all the flicks in India have all Indian individuals, no one will get mad that they don’t have variety.’”
“It was giving Proud Boy, it was giving ‘All Lives Matter,’ it was giving white supremacy, and at that time I used to be completed arguing,” she recalled. “And I mentioned, ‘You realize what, I can’t work with you, I’m completed.’”
Julia additionally made positive to make clear that she had “grown to like the individuals hooked up, the producers, the writers, the opposite actor in query, and I don’t wish to blow up this complete factor for them.”
“I simply can’t imagine I’m having conversations like this in 2024,” she concluded.
We’ll let you realize if there are any extra updates to this story. Within the meantime, you’ll be able to watch Julia’s total TikTok right here.
