'Lost' showrunner Damon Lindelof says he “failed” to create a safe creative environment on his hit series, where he once allegedly joked that he’d fired an actor after he “called me racist.”
writers and actors who allege that the show was uniquely toxic—thanks in particular to an atmosphere where racist humor allegedly helped determine who was “in” and who was “out” in the writers room. “There was apparently some discomfort around the show’s cleaning staff using the bathroom in theWriter Monica Owusu-Breen, who worked on’s third season, described it as the most “nakedly hostile” workplace of her career.
“I don’t think I can do that,” Perrineau recalled thinking. “I can’t be another person who doesn’t care about missing Black boys, even in the context of fiction, right? This is just furthering the narrative that nobody cares about Black boys, even Black fathers.”
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