Actors and actresses articles
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Billy Dee Williams On Actors Wearing Blackface: “If You’re An Actor, You Should Do Anything You Want To Do”
Billy Dee Williams is defending actors who want to wear blackface in their performances. The Star Wars actor appeared on Bill Maher’s podcast and recalled Laurence Olivier’s performance in 1965’s Othello, where the actor wore blackface. “When he did ‘Othello,’ I fell out laughing,” Williams said of Olivier on the Club Random podcast. “He stuck […]
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Billy Dee Williams, 87, tells Bill Maher that actors should be able to do blackface while criticizing “victim mentality”: “If you’re an actor, you should do whatever you want.”
Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters in blackface while chatting with Bill Maher.The 87-year-old Star Wars actor stopped by Maher's podcast Club Random in an episode posted on his YouTube channel on Sunday.When the topic turned to Laurence Olivier's portrayal of the title role in the 1965 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, Williams was pleased with Olivier's parodies of stereotypes associated with black people.But the 68-year-old Real Time host - who...
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Billy Dee Williams, 87, tells Bill Maher that actors should be able to do Blackface while slamming 'victim' mentality: 'If you're an actor you should do anything you want'
Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters using Blackface while chatting with Bill Maher.