Legendary Hollywood screenwriter David Mamet is not any fan of the leisure business’s efforts to drive higher range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) in its ranks.
“DEI is rubbish,” Mamet informed the Los Angeles Occasions Competition of Books on Sunday throughout a session with Matt Brennan. Mamet, who was readily available to speak about his memoir In every single place an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Correct Report of Forty Years in Hollywood, added the business’s DEI efforts amounted to “fascist totalitarianism,” in line with an account within the Occasions.
The playwright and director, who has labored in Hollywood for the reason that Nineteen Eighties and is thought for his trademark rapid-fire script dialogue, didn’t shrink back from criticism throughout an off-the-cuff dialog at USC’s Newman Recital Corridor.
“There’s no room for particular person initiative,” Mamet mentioned of a movie business having skilled “progress, maturity, decay and dying,” particularly within the wake of the latest Hollywood writers strike.
“There’ll be much less work,” he speculated. “However the scripts will likely be higher,” Mamet added. And he rejected that his youngsters, together with Zosia Mamet, who starred in Women, ever acquired work due to their affiliation with the Glengarry Glen Ross stage play scribe.
“They earned it by advantage … no one ever gave my youngsters a job due to who they have been associated to,” Mamet insisted.