“It’s not that hard to do, and it’s just common sense,” Feig, the director of Bridesmaids and the Ghostbusters remake, told the Guardian on Tuesday.
Nicole Sanchez, the founder of Vaya Consulting, which works with tech companies on diversity and inclusion, said that within days of McDormand’s speech, she had received dozens of calls from parties interested in inclusion riders.
Affleck and Damon have not said whether they plan to use inclusion riders when appearing in films outside of their company, and their representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“I feel like the people who don’t do it now and the studios and companies that don’t do it now are moving backward, not forward.”