Adam Sandler's Ridiculous Six is getting more ridiculous with each passing day.
Video obtained by Indian Country Today shows numerous Native actors on the set of the Netflix film (which Sandler co-wrote and is starring in) arguing with a producer, who has yet to be identified, as well as two crew members.
The actors and producer argue about the script's details, such as characters named "Beaver's Breath" and the inaccuracy of set designs, such as, as one actor puts it, the "insulting and inappropriate" decoration of a wedding teepee.
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"Here's the thing," the producer says. "If you're overly sensitive about it, then you should probably leave."
"We don't want to offend anyone," he adds later.
About a dozen actors walked off the film's set a few days ago, including the film's consultant. The captured video appears to show what happened before the walk-off.
"We've got a lot to lose," one of the actors says to the producer. "We've got children, we've got young daughters and allowing an Indian woman to be called 'Beaver Breath' or some other disrespectful thing like that is not going to fly with us."
"I understand completely, but we're not going to change Beaver's Breath," the producer says.
The rest of the 5 minute, 44 second video is a back-and-forth between two female crew members and the actors. Netflix has not yet released a statement, but previously told Mashable: "The movie has ridiculous in the title for a reason: because it is ridiculous. It is a broad satire of Western movies and the stereotypes they popularized, featuring a diverse cast that is not only part of — but in on — the joke."
In Ridiculous Six, Adam Sandler plays a man raised by Apache Indians. The film's title is a spoof of The Magnificent Seven, the 1960 classic Western starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson.
In the video, many of the actors made it clear they weren't particularly happy with Sandler playing a faux-Apache and being portrayed as the film's "hero."
"That's an insult to start with," one of the Native actors says. "But we were willing to laugh about it."