She also talks about how Hattie McDaniel, the first Black person to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the film, wasn’t allowed to sit with her cast members. The film’s other Black actors weren’t allowed to attend the movie’s premiere with everyone else due to Georgia’s Jim Crow segregation laws, as well.

Aside from Stewart’s introduction, HBO Max also attached an hour-long recording of a panel discussion entitled “The Complicated Legacy of Gone With the Wind” to the film. The panel discussion took place at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2019 and was moderated by author and historian Donald Bogle.

HBO Max pulled down Gone with the Wind in the middle of widespread protests against racism and police violence in the US. That was also after 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley called for its temporary removal until it can be reintroduced “with other films that give a more broad-based and complete picture of what slavery and the Confederacy truly were.”