Roles For Minority Actors Are SAGging, Inspiring Terrible Puns

The Screen Actors Guild sent out its annual casting data report, happily announcing that roles for minority actors is at an all-time high. Vibrant! However, their reports turn out to be a little skewed when it comes time, to use the popular parlance of today’s youth, to break it on down:

The number of African-American leads fell by 49 roles. The percentage of roles played by Latino/Hispanic actors was also down, although their number of leads in features grew from 31 to 52 roles and their supporting roles in features grew from 302 to 364. Roles played by Native-Americans, the least-represented ethnic group studied, fell from 0.4 percent of total roles in 2005 to 0.2 percent of total roles in ‘06.

Oh well. At least we’ll always have this guy.

SAG: More Roles for Minority Actors [Backstage]