Billy Dee Williams Says All Actors Ought to Be Allowed to Put on Blackface

When Maher pushed back a bit — noting you couldn’t get away with that in this day and age — Billy incredulously asks … why not??? In his view, anyone should be able to rock blackface — so long as it’s in an acting capacity and it’s meant to portray another character.

Billy and Bill get into a back and forth over the outrage expressed these days over this — of course, many have called blackface incredibly racist, and it’s widely seen as taboo — and in the end … Billy ends by talking about not wanting to live in a victimhood mentality.

It’s an interesting chat for sure, and it sounds like BM and BDW found common ground.