Film help: movie crash - What is the issue between the African American director and the white producer? - Help.com

The producer wants the actor to stay in his character which he feels has changed, to try to describe how he feels the performance has changed he uses the term ‘black’ (”isn’t he sounding a bit less ‘black’ to you?”) presumably refering to the fact that the character conforms to a speech type which is used mostly in some areas with a high African-American population.
The director, having just undergone an incident in which he felt racial abuse was a factor, is insulted by the inference that his colour is a factor in how the character is percieved and is expected to speak as a result of this perception.
It seemed quite a realistic scene to me, an unfortunate and unnescessary clash. The producer could easily have phrased his statement so that the actors character rather than his colour was the given reason for his query & the director could equaly easily have made the effort to see the real reason for the question - the integrity of the character. The producer was insensitive & the director was oversensitive - I don’t think either of them were doing anything notably wrong just one of those things where people fall out over nothing in particular.