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Harewood Says Actors Should Be Allowed to Use Blackface
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| 4/24
| Steven McIntosh
Posted on 04/23/2024 1:53:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Actor David Harewood has said actors "should be able to do anything" - including use blackface to portray black characters.
The 58-year-old made the comments following recent debate in the film and TV industry about casting and identity politics. In an interview with the Guardian, Harewood said: "The name of the game is acting.
"Yes, we’ve got to be representative, but I do think we have to be careful… That even extends to Othello in Blackface." William Shakespeare’s Othello has historically seen white actors use make-up to appear black while playing the titular character.
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To: nickcarraway
Don’t know who he is but yeah.
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posted on
04/23/2024 1:55:06 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
To: nickcarraway
Dave Chappelle has done whiteface to portray a white person.I don’t see a problem with that.
To: Gay State Conservative
To: nickcarraway
civilization going in circles.
around the drain.
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posted on
04/23/2024 1:58:59 PM PDT
by
xoxox
To: nickcarraway
Connecting serious acting (Shakespeare etc) with 19th century Minstrel Shows was always idiotic.
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posted on
04/23/2024 1:59:26 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Joe 6-pack
That was funny. Murphy apparently didn’t like being on SNL, but he did his best stuff there. “Kill the white people, but buy my record first.”
To: nickcarraway
Thats mighty white of him to say so...
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:02:13 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: nickcarraway
I wont judge blackface because sometimes Id really like to destroy a McDonalds for getting my order wrong. Lately brawling on the beach and leave a ton of garbage behind looks like a lot of fun too.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:12:37 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
To: Magnum44
I gotta say...that was spooky real.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:15:39 PM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: nickcarraway
Robert Downey Jr. did it.
A dude playing a dude playing another dude.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:16:07 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
To: nickcarraway
why not?
it’s not like they can get a black guy to play the part.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:16:49 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: nickcarraway
Anything but vote for Trump that is.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:17:35 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: nickcarraway
If Broadway can have a black Alexander Hamilton, I see no reason why white actors can’t play a black character.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:22:40 PM PDT
by
Avalon Memories
(Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
To: Avalon Memories
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:27:41 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:32:28 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
To: dfwgator
Hey, if Will Smith can play James West....
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:35:37 PM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
To: bigbob
This guy is British, so he can’t vote in the U.S.
To: nickcarraway
This guy did it repeatedly and is still on tv.
Jimmmy Kimmel
One of the biggest piece of crap liberals on tv.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:41:33 PM PDT
by
A Cyrenian
(MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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