Adam Sandler has at least one defender when it comes to insensitive jokes about Native Americans. Vanilla Ice, who has a role in The Ridiculous Six, is defending the film’s star.
Last week, Native American extras walked off the set of the film, which will be Sandler’s first for Netflix. Many of the extras described scenes to the Indian Country Today Media Network that they were offended by. There were also character names like Beaver’s Breath and No Bra that were offensive.
Gawker later obtained a copy of a 2012 draft of Ridiculous Six, which did include some of the scenes the extras described. The script does reveal that Sandler, who plays a white man raised by Native Americans, is married to a woman named Smoking Fox.
Vanilla Ice, who apparently plays Mark Train in the movie, told TMZ, “This movie isn't Dancing with Wolves ... it's comedy.” Ice also said that he is part Choctaw, so he can see both sides of the argument.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Indian Country Today has posted cell phone video from Goldie Tom, which shows staffers on the film telling Native American extras to leave if they are “overly sensitive.”
Ridiculous Six has been in the works for years, first at Sony, then at Paramount. Netflix agreed to make it in February.
“The movie has ridiculous in the title for a reason: because it is ridiculous. It is a broad satire of Western movies and the stereotypes they popularized, featuring a diverse cast that is not only part of — but in on — the joke,” Netflix said in a statement last week.
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