I really am not a fan of his movies. But I’m right with him on this.
Via Daily Mail:
Top director Tim Burton caused a Twitter storm after trying to explain why his latest film – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – has a predominately white cast.
The filmmaker sparked a furious backlash when he said non-white actors only started appearing in shows like The Brady Bunch because producers wanted to be more ‘politically correct’.
‘Nowadays, people are talking about it more, (but) things either call for things, or they don’t,’ he told Bustle.
‘I remember back when I was a child watching The Brady Bunch and they started to get all politically correct, like, OK, let’s have an Asian child and a black – I used to get more offended by that than just – I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right?
‘And I said, that’s great. I didn’t go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies.’
His reasoning angered many on Twitter with one user saying he is ‘one of the many directors who think that for a world to be magical and fantastical it must be white.’Another said that ‘he isn’t even diverse in casting white actors.’
One tweeter – referring to Burton’s tendency to cast Johnny Depp – joked that there are no black people in his films as ‘Johnny Depp uhm isn’t black.