Jokes That Provoked Actors Of Walk Off Adam Sandler's Set

                  Although lots of people have presumably wanted to walk off Adam Sandler sets, no one has ever had this good (or this public) an excuse until now. Two days ago, Native American extras on Sandler’s new Netflix movie The Ridiculous Six walked off of the set due to the film’s portrayal of Native Americans.\When asked, Netflix defended the film was a “broad satire” and said that those individuals and groups being made fun of are “in on the joke”.
Defamer got their hands on a copy of the script. Given that the version of the script they obtained was dated Dec. 7, 2012, it’s possible that some revisions have been made. However, several of the examples cited by the Native actors as offensive are present in the script.


The film tells the story of 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 woman named Smoking Fox, and the movie follows them as Tommy battles a group of men called the Left-Eye Gang. Tommy is presumably played by Sandler, as the character is not currently listed on the film’s IMDB page.

The scenes that caused the extras to leave the set happen within the first act of the film. Extra Loren Anthony spoke with Indian Country Today and described a scene involving a character named Beaver Breath being especially enraging. He also was upset that the costumes were completely inaccurate.

“We were supposed to be Apache, but it was really stereotypical and we did not look Apache at all. We looked more like Comanche,” he said. “One thing that really offended a lot of people was that there was a female character called Beaver’s Breath. One character says ‘Hey, Beaver’s Breath.’ And the Native woman says, ‘How did you know my name?’”

David Hill, a 74-year-old Choctaw man, also left the set because of the crude jokes and disrespect shown to him by the crew.

“They were being disrespectful,” he said. “They were bringing up those same old arguments that Dan Snyder uses in defending the Redskins. But let me tell you, our dignity is not for sale. It is a real shame because a lot of people probably stay because they need a job.”

Another controversial scene revolved around a Native woman squatting and peeing while smoking a peace pipe. The extras said the character’s name was “No Bra”, though the character that does this in the original script is the even more offensive “Sits-On-Face”.

The character not only squats and pees while smoking in front of two men, she also is buck-naked but carefully covered by surrounding elements in order to get the crucial “PG-13” rating.

Whenever Native American characters are on screen, they are represented as ridiculous stereotypes. One character lists other Native names, including “Flaming Wolf,” “Five Hairy Moles,” “One Eyebrow” and “Four Pickles.”

“I hope they will listen to us,” Hill said. “We understand this is a comedy, we understand this is humor, but we won’t tolerate disrespect. I told the director if he had talked to a native woman the way they were talked to in this movie—I said I would knock his ass out.”

Sandler is known for crass humor, but this debacle has pushed things to a whole new level. Perhaps now executives will get the hint and stop funding his films without a more careful perusal of the script.