Jordan, who begins production this week on Just Mercy, called the WarnerMedia policy an “enormous step forward”, adding, “This is a legacy-bearing moment.”
Warner Bros has become the first major Hollywood studio to adopt a company-wide policy meant to increase diversity on and off screen, expanding the “inclusion rider” concept popularized by actor Frances McDormand earlier this year.
A handful of high-profile actors and directors, including Brie Larson, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Paul Feig, have expressed varying commitments to using inclusion riders.
Inclusion riders are provisions that actors and others in the industry can add to their contracts to stipulate diversity in the casts and crews of their projects.