Native Actors Walk off Set of Adam Sandler Movie After Insults to Women, Elders

Actors Saginaw Grant and Loren Anthony on the set of ‘Ridiculous Six.’ Image source: instagram.com/lorenanthony

by Vincent Schilling, Indian Country Today, April 23, 2015

Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler’s newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday. The actors, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, left the set after the satirical western’s script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture.

The examples of disrespect included Native women’s names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.