Charlotte Rampling, an Academy Award nominee for best actress, revealed on Friday that she believes the boycott against the Oscars is “racist against whites.”

Speaking fluent French in an interview with France’s Europe 1 radio, the British actress said that one would “never really know” how the Academy makes their decisions, and that “sometimes maybe black actors didn’t deserve to make the shortlist.”

Earlier this week, the director Spike Lee and the actress Jada Pinkett Smith said that they would not be attending the February 28th Oscars ceremony in protest of the all-white nominations. Mr. Lee later clarified his statement saying that he only suggested that Hollywood studios institute a policy similar to the NFL’s requirement that teams interview minority candidates for head coach and senior staff jobs.

Ms. Rampling, who is a member of the Academy and thus able to vote on Oscar awards, said she disagreed with the recent boycott. “We live now in countries where anyway people are more or less accepted,” she said. “There are always problems: ‘He’s less handsome’ or ‘He’s too black’ or ‘He’s too white.’ There will always, always be someone who will say, ‘Oh, you’re too ….’ What are we going to do? We’re going to classify all that to create thousands of little minorities everywhere?”

When asked what she thought of the fact that many minority actors still feel that they lack the recognition they deserve, Ms. Rampling gave a clear “no comment.”

The backlash against Ms. Rampling was quick and felt on Twitter:

LRT: I’m glad this Oscar boycott thing is happening if only to see these racist ass white actors show their racist asses and be seent.

— Mia McKenzie (@miamckenzie) January 22, 2016

@miamckenzie @BlackGirlNerds I hear 3 things: 1. Ignorance 2. Media attention 3. Jealousy

— Charles T Franklin (@creativedropout) January 22, 2016

Charlotte Rampling proving that only people who have never experienced racism use the phrase ‘racist against white people’.

— The Malcontent (@TheMal_Content) January 22, 2016

Charlotte Rampling, one of 20 white actors now nominated for an Oscar, thinks #OscarsSoWhite is “racist to whites.” https://t.co/zeAJCZvxKJ

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) January 22, 2016

Here’s a translation of what Charlotte Rampling said on Europe 1 Radio:

Q. This year the Oscars are beset by polemics: No black actor or actress in the selection for the second year in a row. Do you understand the anger of, for instance, Spike Lee, who called for a boycott of the ceremony?

A. No. I find that goes in the other direction: it’s racist against whites.

Really?

Yes. We can never know if it’s really the case. Sometimes maybe black actors didn’t deserve to make the shortlist.

He explains that he wants to instate quotas for minorities in American cinema so that they can make it into the selection.

Why classify people? We live now in countries where anyway people are more or less accepted. There are always problems: ‘He’s less handsome’ or ‘He’s too black’ or ‘He’s too white.’ There will always, always be someone who will say, ‘Oh, you’re too…’ What are we going to do? We’re going to classify all that to create thousands of little minorities everywhere?

The fact that they still feel like a minority, that doesn’t speak to you? They feel like a minority. They say, ‘We’re black actors and we still don’t really exist.’

No comment.

Ms. Rampling is up for an Oscar for her performance in Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, about a couple whose 45th wedding anniversary is clouded by news from the past. The movie was released in France this week.

Cast member from ‘Dirty Grandpa‘ starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron reveals behind the scenes secrets.

Dirty Grandpa is road trip flick that features Zac Efron as an uptight guy who is tricked into driving his grandfather, a perverted former Army general to Florida for spring break.

Robert De Niro is one of Hollywood’s best living actors. He’s won several Academy Awards and has played some of the most iconic characters in the history of filmmaking. One can imagine that working with can be extremely intimidating for a young actor, especially if they have to be involved in a very intimate scene.

Aubrey Plaza has a sex scene with De Niro in the new movie Dirty Grandpa and while it appears to have gone well overall, it seems she inadvertently upset him by doing something he really didn’t like.

Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actress explains that her sex scene with Robert De Niro took pretty much an entire day of shooting. There was nothing specifically scripted to occur, so director Dan Mazer would give Plaza  number of different ideas about what to try to see and what worked well. At one point he suggested she started kissing Robert De Niro’s nipples and De Niro didn’t really like that.

“He was, like, batting me away. And I didn’t know if it was, like, in character or not, because you never know with him. They cut the camera, and then Dan called me back, and he’s like, ‘Bob does not like his nipple area paid attention to. So don’t do that!’”

So yeah, if you’re ever working with Robert De Niro in a sex scene, do not suck on his nipples.

You can check out a clip from the show below:

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