"This year saw Scarlett Johansson cast in Ghost in the Shell. It saw the entirety of the movie Doctor Strange. It saw Matt Damon as the lead in a movie about the Great Wall of China. And that's just the shortlist of the ways Hollywood erased characters of color and put white characters at the center of PoC stories again and again. At the very least, 2016 saw some people beginning to learn about the impact of these decisions. Tilda Swinton and Margaret Cho aired out an email conversation that discussed the controversy around Doctor Strange, and the film's writer and director, Scott Derrickson, told The Daily Beast that he ""didn't really understand the level of pain that's out there, for people who grew up with movies like I did but didn't see their own faces up there."" ""The angry voices and the loud voices that are out there I think are necessary,"" he said. ""And if it pushes up against this film, I can't say I don't support it. Because how else is it going to change? This is just the way we've got to go to progress, and whatever price I have to pay for the decision I've made, I'm willing to pay.""But Hollywood's efforts to eradicate these issues have been nonexistent at worst and slow at best. The next step? Results, and preferably learning these lessons before the film is already made and out there."
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