Billy Dee Williams thinks stars ought to still be permitted to put on Blackface.
The “Celebrity Wars” tale made the honest statement on Costs Maher’s “Club Random” podcast throughout a conversation concerning Laurence Olivier putting on Blackface to play Othello in the 1965 movie of the very same name.
” When he did Othello, I befalled laughing,” the 87-year-old stated of Olivier. “He stuck his butt out and walked with his butt, you understand, since Black individuals are intended to have huge a #### … I enjoy that type of things.”
When podcast host Maher kept in mind that white stars would certainly never ever be permitted to “do that” nowadays, Williams responded, “Why?”
A stunned Maher reacted, “Blackface?” and Williams stated, “Why not? You ought to do it. If you’re a star, you ought to do anything you intend to do.”
The comic after that kept in mind that the “Batman” celebrity when “resided in a duration” where he “could not play the components (he) ought to’ve played” since white stars in Blackface depicted them.
” The factor is that you do not experience life sensation like, ‘I’m a target,'” Williams described. “I decline to experience life stating to the globe, ‘I’m p ##### off.’ I’m not gon na be p ##### off 24-hour a day.”
Earlier in the discussion, the professional star went over sensation constrained as “a Black individual” in Hollywood.
” If I’m mosting likely to be imaginative, allow me be imaginative as an independent,” he shared. “I do not intend to do anything based upon this entire concept that you’re a Black individual, you’re a white individual and points of that nature. I’m a musician. I’m an imaginative entity in this life.”
