"A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white"
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Her line exposes how casting discrimination often hides behind the language of logistics. "They're not casting non-white" is presented like a neutral production choice, as if whiteness is simply the default setting and everything else is a specialty add-on. The subtext is that the industry treats race less as identity and more as a sorting mechanism: a crude spreadsheet category that overrides talent, range, and résumé.
The most cutting moment is "You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white". She’s not throwing other actors under the bus; she’s describing how the system collapses difference into a single, market-tested demographic bucket. It’s flattening: Korean Canadian becomes "not white", specific becomes interchangeable, individual becomes "type". That’s why it works rhetorically: she shifts the focus from personal grievance to structural design, showing how gatekeeping operates through pre-decided assumptions about what stories are "sellable" and who gets to embody the universal. The quote lands because it captures exclusion as infrastructure, not anomaly.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Oh, Sandra. (2026, January 16). A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-things-that-i-cant-get-into-the-room-for-110192/
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Oh, Sandra. "A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-things-that-i-cant-get-into-the-room-for-110192/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-things-that-i-cant-get-into-the-room-for-110192/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
