Native-American actors walk off Sandler set

Andrea Mandell | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Native Americans quit Adam Sandler film for 'disrespectful' script Around a dozen Native American actors and the movie’s cultural advisor reportedly walked off the New Mexico set of a satirical western Sandler is making for Netflix, because of what they're calling a disrespectful.

Adam Sandler's new Netflix movie The Ridiculous Six, a satirical Western, crossed the line for a group of American Indian actors.

So they quit.

According to The Associated Press, the Native-American actors found elements of The Ridiculous Six's script offensive and stereotypical.

Actor Loren Anthony told the AP on Thursday he and eight others quit the production after producers ignored their concerns about its portrayal of Apache culture.

Anthony posted several photos from the set on his Instagram account, apparently taken before the walk-off.

Though in another post Anthony wrote he was "having a good time, great cast, great crew and feeling blessed to be here," apparently the feeling evaporated when, he tells the Indian Country Today Media Network "things started getting weird on set."

According to Indian Country Today, examples of disrespect included Native women's names such as Beaver's Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.

Anthony says producers told them to leave if they felt offended.

Taylor Lautner and Nick Nolte star opposite Sandler in the film, the first of a four-picture deal Sandler struck with Netflix last year.

"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," said Netflix in a statement.