A member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has said that its failure to include Black members is “not really anything we focused on”, in the wake of renewed scrutiny over its lack of diversity.
It has not had a single Black member since before 2002, a story in Variety revealed last week.
Cooney called the whole situation “embarrassing and… kind of alarming that we could have gone so long [without a Black member].”
The HFPA is the non-profit organisation behind the Golden Globes.