Frances McDormand regrets celebrated Oscars endorsement of "inclusion riders"

Imagine one day you hear about an idea for the very first time. Then the next day you face an audience of millions. Would you call on your audience to embrace that new idea?

In 2018, Frances McDormand did just that.

After winning the Academy Award for best actress for her role in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” McDormand took to the stage and urged Hollywood to embrace a relatively unknown idea—inclusion riders—as a way to boost diversity. Two years later, she admitted she’d made a mistake.

“I wish I’d never fucking said it now,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “I was not educated enough, I didn’t have enough information about it.”