LOS ANGELES If you watched the Oscars Sunday night, then you probably heard the last two words of Frances McDormands speech : inclusion rider.
Backstage in the press room, nearly everyone around me, including myself, scratched their heads and said something to the effect of, What is that? And is it inclusion rider or inclusion writer? We quickly started Googling and hunting on Twitter to figure it out.
Aha, inclusion rider.
After the telecast wrapped, a victorious McDormand, star of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, arrived in the press room with her best actress Oscar in hand. Not surprisingly, the topic came up.