On April 23, 2015, Indian Country Today Media Network reported that the film's Native American cultural advisor, and 12 Native American actors and actresses, left the set in protest of its portrayal of Apache culture. The New York Daily News later reported that four out of over 100 Native American actors and actresses left the set. Navajo Nation tribal members Loren Anthony, and film student Allison Young, said they left because they felt the film portrayed Native Americans in a negative light, and took satire too far. They also complained that the portrayal of women was degrading. A representative of Netflix responded, "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." On May 4, the New York Daily News reported that Ricky Lee, a Native American actor in the film, said that previous news reports were exaggerated, and indeed there were only "four actors who left, but there were one hundred fifty extras, including grandmas and grandpas and children, who kept working." Apparently, before the film's wrap party, Adam Sandler approached Lee and several other actors to speak about the controversy. According to Lee, those who left raised legitimate issues, but it was "the wrong battlefield".

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