About a dozen Native American actors as well as a “cultural advisor” walked off the set of Adam Sandler’s straight-to-Netflix western parody The Ridiculous Six on Wednesday, according to a report from Indian Country Today. The film, which aims to spoof The Magnificent Seven, had been filming this week near Las Vegas, New Mexico (yes, that’s a real place).

“There were about a dozen of us who walked off the set,” one of the actors, Loren Anthony said. “I was asked a long time ago to do some work on this and I wasn’t down for it. Then they told me it was going to be a comedy, but it would not be racist. So I agreed to it but on Monday things started getting weird on the set.”

“We were supposed to be Apache, but it was really stereotypical and we did not look Apache at all. We looked more like Comanche,” he continued. “One thing that really offended a lot of people was that there was a female character called Beaver’s breath. One character says ‘Hey, Beaver’s Breath.’ And the Native woman says, ‘How did you know my name?’ They just treated us as if we should just be on the side. When we did speak with the main director, he was trying to say the disrespect was not intentional and this was a comedy.”

Other actors told the website that they felt “uneasy” and “conflicted” about doing the film in the first place and when they expressed their concerns producers told them, “If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave.”

“They were being disrespectful,” 74-year old Choctaw David Hill, who also left the film said. “They were bringing up those same old arguments that Dan Snyder uses in defending the Redskins. But let me tell you, our dignity is not for sale. It is a real shame because a lot of people probably stay because they need a job.”

“We understand this is a comedy, we understand this is humor, but we won’t tolerate disrespect,” he added. “I told the director if he had talked to a native woman the way they were talked to in this movie—I said I would knock his ass out.”

In response to the controversy, a spokesperson for Netflix told Vulture:

“The movie has ridiculous in the title for a reason: because it is ridiculous. It is a broad satire of Western movies and the stereotypes they popularized, featuring a diverse cast that is not only part of — but in on — the joke.”

Apparently not all of the cast is “in on” the joke.

Before he left the set, actor Loren Anthony posted a series of production photos to his Instagram account:

[h/t Splitsider]

[Photo via Wikimedia Commons]

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