On a Wednesday afternoon nine days after the murder of George Floyd, Brittny Chapman sat down in front of her iPad camera in her East Hollywood apartment and pressed record.
With round, gold-rimmed glasses framing her face and a black T-shirt blazoned with "Black Women Welcomed," the 36-year-old costumer chastised her union's muted response to the worldwide protests following Floyd's death in 2020.
Studios such as Netflix and Walt Disney had pledged financial support for Black lives and social justice. Chapman's Motion Picture Costumers Local 705, which represents thousands of Hollywood costume workers, had shared tweets by parent union IATSE expressing solidarity with African Americans but otherwise was quiet, she complained.
