‘You Have Different Consequences’: Sterling K. Brown Exposes Hollywood’s Double Standard Between Black and White Actors on Set

Sterling K. Brown may have been one of the beloved stars of ABC’s “This Is Us,” but in Hollywood, he is still a Black man trying to avoid career-ending pitfalls. The actor recently got candid during a conversation on his and his wife, Ryan Michelle Bathe’s podcast “We Don’t Always Agree” about cancel culture and blowback that white entertainers seemingly skirt.The couple was discussing the difference between Kevin Hart’s decade-old homophobic joke controversy derailing his invitation to host the Oscars in 2019 and singer John Mayer’s 2010 comment that his “d—k is sort of like a white supremacist” is easily forgotten. Both Hart and Mayer have recovered from the incidents, but as Brown and Bathe shared, that is not always the case for Black people in the business. Sterling K. Brown says Black actors are held to higher standards than white peers by the cancel culture movement. Photos: We Don’t Aways Agree podcast/YouTube.“I have observed behavior of my white counterparts on set where people will get loud and, you know, frustrated, and it is couched as being passionate or just sort of like animated. Like, it’s given like a moniker that is not angry, right,” said the Academy Award-nominated actor....