Tim Burton Pissed Off The Internet

When asked about the lack of diversity in his new film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which only has one non-white cast member, Samuel L Jackson– who is also the villain– director Tim Burton sent the internet into a rage. He said “I remember back when I was a child watching ‘The Brady Bunch’ and they started to get all politically correct,” he said. “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.” Come on, this is the most diverse movie Burton has done in years, it has exactly zero Johnny Depps in it.

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