He is talking about the Vanity Fair article that The Marvels director did, specifically the white dudes line:
As she awaits the release of The Marvels in November, DaCosta has decamped from social media. Captain Marvel, which was directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, may have been an enormous hit, but it was also one of the few female-fronted films in the studios universeand, not coincidentally, the recipient of sexist vitriol from the darkest corners of the fandom. As for The Marvels, it centers on three women, including the first Muslim superhero in one of the studios movies. Im just girding myself for it, DaCosta says. I am a sensitive soul, and I think maybe more of us are than we want to admit.
DaCosta is also still grappling with the breakthroughs shes made, including the fact that The Marvels is the highest-budgeted film ever helmed by a Black woman. (DuVernays A Wrinkle in Time previously held that title with $100 million.) On sets, shes noticed that the way shes spoken to, or heard, is different than it would be for someone who doesnt look like her. Sometimes as a Black woman, you realize that [people think] you take up more space than you actually do, or your voice sounds louder to people than it actually is, or your tone is more stern than it actually is, she says.
Despite having Peeles full support on Candyman, DaCosta says that some ridiculous things happened on that set, with crew members saying things that are super inappropriate, that you would just never say to anyone else because they were so specific to my gender, my race, my age. She had a very different experience on The Marvels, fortunately, in part because she had the power to hire the people she wanted for her team. I realized it wasnt ever gonna be about how much power I amassed or how many great movies I made, or if I won awards, it was always just going to be the people that I surrounded myself with, she says. The thing that Ive been most surprised by lately is how much respect Im getting from these middle-aged white dudes that I work with.
I guess people aren't going to click videos about a director they don't know. Better make it about Brie.