By Merlin
sun, oct 2, 2022 10:53 a.m.
Outrageous racism: black woman gets called by the wrong name on a movie production set
"Dahmer production assistant calls it 'one of the worst shows' she's worked on as a person of color"
Since its release on Sept. 21, Ryan Murphy's Dahmer series has drawn backlash from both viewers and families of the victims. Now, a [affirmative action] production assistant on the show is opening up about her negative experience on set.
[Now, a production assistant on the show is lying about her experience on set. FIFY]
Last month, Kim Alsup tweeted that she was "treated horribly" while filming Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which stars Evan Peters as the convicted serial killer, who violently murdered 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991. She also said she was often mistaken for another colleague. Racism at its worst. It was horrifying.
"I worked on this project and I was 1 of 2 black people on the crew and they kept calling me her name," she wrote. "We both had braids. She was dark skin [sp.] and 5'10 [punct.]. I'm 5'5. Working on this took everything I had as I was treated horribly. I look at the black female lead differently now too." (Alsup has since made her twitter account private.)
Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer in DAHMER
Netflix Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer in 'Dahmer'
Alsup recently said she has yet to watch the show because of the awful memories she has attached to it. "I don't want to have these PTSD types of situations," she told theLos Angeles Times in a new interview. "The trailer itself gave me PTSD, which is why I ended up writing that tweet and I didn't think that anybody was going to read."
Slamming the series as "one of the worst shows" she's ever worked on as a person of color, Alsup also alleged that there were no mental health coordinators available on set. She added, "I was always being called someone else's name, the only other Black girl who looked nothing like me, and I learned the names for 300 background extras."
Alsup noted that workplace conditions did get better while filming the show's sixth episode, which was written by Janet Mock and directed by Paris Barclay, who are both people of color. However, Alsup said that, overall, she found the experience "exhausting."
Alsup and representatives for netflix did not immediately respond to ew's requests for comment.
Alsup is not the only one who has condemned the adaptation. In an essay for insider, Rita Isbell — who is the sister of Errol Lindsey, one of Dahmer's victims — wrote that she was "never contacted about the show" before its release, even though it recreates her emotional 1992 victim impact statement to Dahmer in one episode.
Viewers have also criticized netflix's decision to tag Dahmer as an lgbtq series on the streaming service, with one fan saying it was "not the representation we're looking for." The tag has since been removed.
[N.S.: but Jeffrey Dahmer most certainly was a homosexual.]
5 comments:
Very funny---calling her by the other black's name.Right from the Don Rickles school of comedy.
Don--while looking at Sammy Davis Jr:"Jimmy Walker--you've SHRUNK!"
While the camera went over to Flip Wilson,on the dais,Don might say,"and seated next to Milton Berle,we have Nipsey Russell.
Dean:That's not Nipsey--that's FLIP!
And Don would say,"Those are nosebleed seats--and from here,I dare ANYONE to tell a Nipsey from a Flip--I took a guess!"
Essentially,this is just something for a black to complain about.
--GRA
For those who like "Wheel of Fortune",tonight is the sarcastically named "CELEBRITY Wheel of Fortune"--without any celebrities you've heard of:
Kristen Schaal,Kevin McKidd and Ron Funches(sounds faintly familiar--black?)
Anyways,it's on at 9 pm on the African Broadcast Company.
--GRA
jerry pdx
Little details prove them to be liars. I spotted this detail:
She (Alsup) added, "I was always being called someone else's name, the only other Black girl who looked nothing like me, and I learned the names for 300 background extras."
So she knew the name of 300 background extras? I don't believe it. I'd love to quiz her on that, have all the extras lineup and have her call out their names. I wouldn't be surprised she wouldn't know more than 3 names. If she'll lie like that, she'll lie about anything.
Maybe somebody got her name wrong 2 times and that becomes "always". Exaggerate, distort, outright lie, that's the game they play.
jerry pdx
The controversy should be why they're making yet another movie about a White serial killer from decades ago but no movie about Samuel Little, a far more prolific black serial killer.
They'll probably do another movie about Ted Bundy, as if there haven't been enough already, before they'll do Little, or Lonnie Franklin jr. or Eugene Coral Watts who were all far more prolific than Bundy was.
Called the wrong name? If that is all the negress has to complain about she doesn't have much to complain about. The negress too said they did not have any mental health coordinators on the set to help her with her grief. OH sure.
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