What Was Frances McDormand Talking About With The Words ‘Inclusion Rider’?

When she won for best actress in a motion picture, McDormand gave a short, fiery speech that ended with “I have two words for you: Inclusion rider.” Those two words sent millions to Google, but there wasn’t much there (at the time). An inclusion rider would be “something actors put into their contracts to ensure gender and racial equality in hiring on movie sets.”