Billy Dee Williams made his stance on actors in blackface clear … saying he is all good with it, ‘trigger appearing is appearing — and an actor ought to be capable of do what they need of their craft.The ‘Star Wars’ alum dished his ideas on this throughout Sunday’s episode of “Club Random” with Bill Maher — this as he praised Laurence Olivier‘s efficiency in 1965’s “Othello” … wherein the late star, who was white, wore blackface to play the titular lead.Billy stated Olivier’s efficiency left him laughing out loud, as a result of LO was lambasting stereotypes related to Black of us — and he says he discovered it humorous versus offensive.
When Maher pushed again a bit — noting you could not get away with that at the moment — Billy incredulously asks … why not??? In his view, anybody ought to be capable of rock blackface — as long as it is in an appearing capability and it is meant to painting one other character.Billy and Bill get right into a backwards and forwards over the outrage expressed today over this — in fact, many have known as blackface extremely racist, and it is broadly seen as taboo — and ultimately … Billy ends by speaking about not eager to stay in a victimhood mentality.It’s an attention-grabbing chat for positive, and it feels like BM and BDW discovered frequent floor.On the difficulty of blackface, although … Lando says he ain’t sweating it. With that stated … we do not see anybody severe leaping on this bandwagon anytime quickly — most likely for the perfect.
