Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are adopting the inclusion rider — and they desperately need it

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck announced Monday that their film company will adopt inclusion riders in all their future projects. An inclusion rider — brought to the national consciousness by Frances McDormand's acceptance speech for Best Actress at the Academy Awards earlier this month — lets actors demand a film meet a certain level of diversity in its cast and crew.

Brie Larson, who won the Best Actress statuette in 2016, was among the first to hop on board the inclusion rider movement, alongside Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan. Affleck and Damon have now followed just a few days later.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.