called out members for punishing them for wearing"I Can't Breathe" shirts to the film's premiere in 2014.
The two -- plus costars including Tessa Thompson, Stephan James, Lorraine Toussaint, Andre Holland and Colman Domingo -- posed in the t-shirts off the red carpet to protest the death of Eric Garner, a Black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a member of the NYPD . "I remember at the premiere of 'Selma' us wearing 'I Can't Breathe' t-shirts in protest. Members of the Academy called in to the studio and our producers saying, 'How dare they do that? Why are they stirring shit?'" Oyelowo claimed in a Q&A with Screen Talks this week.
He said the complaining members said,"We are not going to vote for that film because we do not think it is their place to be doing that." "It's part of why that film didn't get everything that people think it should've got and it birthed #OscarsSoWhite," the actor continued."They used their privilege to deny a film on the basis of what they valued in the world."This claim is one backed up by one of the voting members themselves, who anonymously talked about her ballot with
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TooFab jessclickener I support the message on the shirts but I absolutely HATE that they used comic sans
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TooFab The use of Comic Sans on their shirts set the modern civil rights movement back 30 years