These Are the Jokes That Caused Actors To Walk Off Adam Sandler's Set [View all]
I should say, I depise Sandler movies--to the point I cringe and leave the room. A lot of people love him--I get that. I've never been angry before--irritated yes, but what the fuck was he trying to do here?
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The version of the script we have is dated December 7, 2012, so its possible, if not likely, that some revisions have been made. But several of the examples cited as offensive by the Native actors who walked off the set are present in, and confirmed by, this script.
The films main character, presumably played by Sandler, is Tommy (also called Three Knives), a white man who was given up by his family and raised by Native Americans. He is married to a Native American woman namedwait for itSmoking Fox, and the movie follows the two of them as Tommy battles a group of men called the Left-Eye Gang.
The scenes that caused the Native actors to leave the set appear to happen within the first 15 minutes or so of the film. Extra Loren Anthony, who spoke to Indian Country Today, described a scene involving a character named Beavers Breath as being particularly irritating to the extras:
One thing that really offended a lot of people was that there was a female character called Beavers breath. One character says Hey, Beavers Breath. And the Native woman says, How did you know my name?
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