My friend Marta Kaufman apologizes for the lack of diversity in the show-E!online

friend Co-author Malta Kaufman I am making amends.

For years, Showrunner has fired critics who said the NBC series isn’t diverse enough, but now she thinks they’re right. “It’s not easy to admit or accept guilt,” Kaufman said. Los Angeles Times June 29 “It’s hard to see myself in the mirror. It’s embarrassing that I didn’t understand 25 years ago.”

Once upon a time, Kaufman felt that the 1994-2004 series was called for no reason, saying it was “difficult and frustrating” to understand why people were so critical. I did.

It’s only in the last few years that she has come to understand the importance of expression on the screen. “It was after what happened George Floyd “I started working on systematically incorporating racism in ways I didn’t realize,” Kaufman said. “That was the moment I started thinking about how I participated.” Knew that the course needed to be modified. “