{"id":297488,"date":"2024-04-08T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/billy-dee-williams-says-all-actors-should-be-allowed-to-wear-blackface-2"},"modified":"2024-04-08T23:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:26:33","slug":"billy-dee-williams-says-all-actors-should-be-allowed-to-wear-blackface-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/billy-dee-williams-says-all-actors-should-be-allowed-to-wear-blackface-2","title":{"rendered":"Billy Dee Williams Says All Actors Ought to Be Allowed to Put on Blackface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"43.2299807816\">\n<section id=\"cb-734452ea8db55318218d50da83851865\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-428d4eeb-352b-4dc2-af3b-26f6ef5c1b7b-5174640-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n     <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-428d4eeb-352b-4dc2-af3b-26f6ef5c1b7b-5174640-play-btn\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n     <\/button><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"actor\" alt=\"actor\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/01\/16by9\/2024\/04\/09\/0180984f1aac446b93ef5ca63e193f98_md.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>          <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">Club Random with Bill Maher<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-734452ea8db55318218d50da83851865--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-e45f71e1244a1d6dacfff29613e93466\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"26.2380952381\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/billy-dee-williams\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Billy Dee Williams<\/strong><\/a> made his stance on actors in blackface clear &#8230; saying he&#8217;s all good with it, &#8217;cause acting is acting &#8212; and an actor should be able to do what they want in their craft.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-e45f71e1244a1d6dacfff29613e93466--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-59b780ef3104f6577ba511cdf938cbf0\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"28.3969465649\">\n<p>The &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; alum dished his thoughts on this during Sunday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jEWNzLJJ0Jo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Club Random&#8221; <\/strong><\/a>with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bill-maher\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bill Maher<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; this as he praised <strong>Laurence Olivier<\/strong>&#8216;s performance in 1965&#8217;s &#8220;Othello&#8221; &#8230; in which the late star, who was white, wore blackface to play the titular lead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-59b780ef3104f6577ba511cdf938cbf0--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-aaaae4de614127230e95fc5cc5f0fd83\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-aaaae4de614127230e95fc5cc5f0fd83--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-be5cd8fdc42d577dd2d3a2b3dce10f56\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>Billy said Olivier&#8217;s performance left him laughing out loud, because LO was lambasting stereotypes associated with Black folks &#8212; and he says he found it humorous as opposed to offensive.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-be5cd8fdc42d577dd2d3a2b3dce10f56--><br \/>\n<a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-a875783861ef7174b0f655fac33224ca\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"30\">\n<p>When Maher pushed back a bit &#8212; noting you couldn&#8217;t get away with that in this day and age &#8212; Billy incredulously asks &#8230; why not??? In his view, anyone should be able to rock blackface &#8212; so long as it&#8217;s in an acting capacity and it&#8217;s meant to portray another character.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-a875783861ef7174b0f655fac33224ca--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-9ef7569260c6c266db5c7a05ac3668c2\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block canvas-gallery-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-9ef7569260c6c266db5c7a05ac3668c2--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-e562ba136955cb22cd16cd1fafe7f633\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"31\">\n<p>Billy and Bill get into a back and forth over the outrage expressed these days over this &#8212; of course, many have called blackface incredibly racist, and it&#8217;s widely seen as taboo &#8212; and in the end &#8230; Billy ends by talking about not wanting to live in a victimhood mentality.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-e562ba136955cb22cd16cd1fafe7f633--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-240288799b5003385ffde153b35726ad\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting chat for sure, and it sounds like BM and BDW found common ground.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-240288799b5003385ffde153b35726ad--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-ccf25fe4eed52b8d794ca8daa2a09c1f\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block canvas-gallery-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-ccf25fe4eed52b8d794ca8daa2a09c1f--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-dc7424022524086cbc80cab14cda9352\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>On the issue of blackface, though &#8230; Lando says he ain&#8217;t sweating it. With that said &#8230; we don&#8217;t see anyone serious jumping on this bandwagon anytime soon &#8212; probably for the best.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-dc7424022524086cbc80cab14cda9352--><\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/04\/08\/billy-dee-williams-actors-should-be-allowed-wear-blackface\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play video content Club Random with Bill Maher Billy Dee Williams made his stance on actors in blackface clear &#8230; saying he&#8217;s all good with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}