I did a short video essay on the strange phenomenon of how casting in films, TV, and adverts must now always be the exact opposite of reality, even down to Deliveroo riders being depicted as white women.
I recorded this before Sarah Pochin’s comments, but it’s actually even more relevant now.
This is a bit different from my usual stuff, so see what you think.
Link here:
Thanks,
Nick
Brilliant piece, Nick. Thanks! It's all so maddening isn't it? We watch very little TV now because of this. We find ourselves following individuals on YouTube who adventure into wild places. Wholesome folk doing wholesome stuff and none of them claim to be women if they're men or black.if they're white. Even wedding ads only feature same sex couples. We are meant to believe men don't marry women anymore. I'm monitoring ads on FB. I'd say they are 90% black or brown faces. Thing is, we actively boycott all the companies that try to force feed us this lack of reality. So why do they do it?! And don't get me started on those videos of women being harassed on The Tube. We all know the culprit is always a white man in a suit. Yeah, right!! We have never used Deliveroo or any food delivery services. We are old school, being of an age, where we collect a Chinese if we want one. I WILL be on the lookout for all those white women delivering pizzas to dodgy blocks of flats in the dead of night. What a wholesome career path. OMG everything makes me so mad these days!!
Thank you, Nick. 👏
Good video essay.
Interestingly Ive just been to NZ where my sons girlfriend is a deliveroo driver as her part time job at college. She is blonde and a little over 6ft tall. It made me realise that without the black market undercutting we have here our youngsters could do as she does. As Nick rightly says all our deliveroo folk are ( illegal) migrants.