Eddie and Rick and Russell and I spent months traveling around the country with this film. "We could not find distribution for it but were determined to screen it for Native kids on as many reservations as possible. Even when powerful Native American roles are written, as in Black Cloud, it is difficult to find distribution for the film. I took this as a compliment, until he added that the reason they were happy was because he had actually cast a Native American."ģ. The casting director of one of them approached me at a Christmas party and thanked me because, he said, the network had given him a gift certificate to his favorite restaurant for casting me. "I have had recurring roles on two different shows. A Native American woman has never been a series regular on an American network TV show. Their response was 'We all just feel so much guilt.'"Ģ. The atmosphere was so heavy and the awkward silence so thick that I asked about it.
#JULIA JONES FATHER MOVIE#
The predominantly white after-party felt like a funeral, not a movie premiere. "Several years ago, I went to a screening of the HBO miniseries Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a beautiful and very depressing depiction of the massacre of hundreds of Lakota people by the U.S. The entire industry feels "guilty" about the portrayl of Native Americans in film. Here are six things we learned from the piece.ġ. Her final takeaway is summed up by the title of the piece: "Native Actors Deserve to Be Seen." Jones' essay sheds insight on what it's like to work in show business as a Native American. While her résumé includes successful movies ( The Twilight Saga: Eclipsed) and TV shows ( ER), the road has been full of obstacles. Native American actress Julia Jones opened up about her experience in the industry in this week's Lenny Letter (not yet available online). Because it's such a large industry rife with deep-rooted stereotypes, navigating the entertainment world is something of a feat for anyone who's not a white man. Hollywood has a long way to go on embracing diversity.
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