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Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo reveal Academy rebuked ‘Selma’ cast over Eric Garner protest

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Selma after the cast showed support for Eric Garner.Eric Garner died after a New York City police officer put him in a chokehold in July 2014, months before Selma’s release.

His death sparked a surge of Black Lives Matter protests.At the premiere that same year, director DuVernay, wore T-shirts bearing the slogan “I can’t breathe” for Selma’s premiere.Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King Jr in the film, told Screen Daily that soon after the event the Academy members called the studio saying they would not vote for the film at the Oscars.He said: “I remember at the premiere of Selma us wearing ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-shirts in protest.“Members of the Academy called in to the studio and our producers saying, ‘How dare they do that?

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