Overview
- A behind-the-scenes video shows Huck asking Kuikuro villagers to put away cellphones and remove nontraditional clothing during filming in the Parque Indígena do Xingu, Mato Grosso.
- The recording was for TV Globo’s Domingão com Huck and involved singer Anitta.
- In the footage, a production staffer tells people not in traditional dress to step out of the frame before Huck reiterates the guidance.
- Social media users criticize the remarks as stereotyping and disrespectful, citing lines about “cleaning” their culture and phones making the scene less representative of their culture.
- In a written statement, Huck says he has long supported Indigenous peoples and frames the instructions as an art-direction decision rather than an effort to restrict culture.