Jennifer Aniston addressed fan backlash claiming Friends is 'offensive.'
“There was no question of casting a trans person or a drag queen [for the part] … it was never considered,” the actress, 68, claimed. “It never crossed my mind that I was taking a role from someone.”not yet something that I understoodShe later made a $4 million donation to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to fund an endowed chair in the school’s African and African American studies department.
“Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago,” Kauffman toldat the time. “I want to make sure from now on in every production I do that I am conscious in hiring people of color and actively pursue young writers of color. I want to know I will act differently from now on. And then I will feel unburdened.”She added, “I’ve gotten nothing but love. It’s been amazing.
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