Posted on 03/01/2019 6:57:52 PM PST by EdnaMode
In August, a photo surfaced of a boy in an Afro wig with makeup-darkened skin standing in for 11-year-old African-American actor Keith L. Williams on the Vancouver set of “Good Boys,” a comedy about three sixth-graders who ditch school and wind up on a road trip. The image sparked online outrage, and Seth Rogen, one of the film’s producers, quickly apologized, declaring that on all future projects his team would “take every precaution to make sure something similar does not take place again.”
It turned out that the boy in the makeup, reportedly the son of a stuntman, was African-American but had a lighter skin tone than Williams.
The revelation doesn’t change the disturbing nature of the visual — which summons the racist specter of blackface. But it speaks to challenges facing the stunt community as it grapples to provide minority representation in a charged sociopolitical atmosphere where a job can be lost over an inappropriate tweet.
The producers of “Good Boys” merely needed someone to sit there while the cinematographer lit the scene, so it’s hard to argue that a child matching Williams’ pigmentation couldn’t have been easily found. But when it comes to choosing a stunt double for an actor, matching the skin tone isn’t nearly as important as finding proper skills and a similar facial and body structure, which means that sometimes black stunt workers end up shading their complexions with makeup.
“Black people come in so many colors,” says African-American stuntwoman Jwaundace Candece, founder of Stunt POC, an online directory for stunt people of color. “I don’t think it’s blackface to paint them the same skin tone as the actor or to go lighter. I’ve done lighter; I’ve done darker. It’s not a racist thing.
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Liberals are driving us into a society based on fear. They’re offended by everything, and the only politically correct thing to do is be afraid.
It’s called “acting.”
When liberals try to think, shit comes out.
African-American or African-Canadian?
Okay so from now on all actors must do their own stunts and if they die well that would be less horrifying than blackface I guess.
Manufactured outrage. Typical, considering the source... Boring!
You have boiled it down very succinctly. Bravo.
Ban makeup.
“When liberals try to think, shit comes out.”
LMAO
Stealing it.....
**The revelation doesn’t change the disturbing nature of the visual **
cue Morris Albert:
Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.
Feelings, for all my life I’ll feel it.
I wish I’ve never met you, girl;
You’ll Never Come Again.
Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
Wo-o-o, feel you again.....
where’s the Boo-Hoo girl?
Do liberals like to look for things to be outraged about, no matter how minor an incident is?
Never, never, never, never apologize in these situations. That's one thing I just love about President Trump. He never apologizes for these "gotcha" incidents.
It sure seems that way.
ST upid
Just impose Affirmative Action for stunt doubles. If they get injured or killed because of low skill level, too bad.
They're obviously NOT worried about making entertaining movies...
Screw hollyweird and anything out of that Sewer
Evidence that this use of makeup was motivated by racism: none.
This is mental illness. I'd like to hear Jordan Peterson explain it.
According to modern Anthropologists, there are only 5 races in the world
1. Caucasians
2. African Americans
3. Asians
4. Hispanics
5. Muslims
(I know people in Europe who call all Africans "African-Americans")
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