Post by kims on Apr 10, 2024 22:44:45 GMT
Billy Dee Williams said actors should be able to play a part in Blackface. I suspect he will get backlash over that, so I say he was brave to say it
Peter O'Toole said he was trained to play anything. Yet today there seems to be pressure that an actor can only play his or her ethnicity. Then what is the profession of acting if only playing themselves?
Studios were narrow sighted to develop only Anglos. After all, what's more bizarre than John Wayne as Genghis Khan saying "my Mother.."? Was an Asian available, would a different Anglo actor in yellow-face have been better as Genghis?
My viewpoint is Williams and O'Toole are right. Maybe it's an old fashioned idea. Now we are limiting all actors to specific ethnic roles. Omar Sharif was Egyptian, what a limited career he would have had!
I think the focus should be: does this part require a specific nationality or race? I'm trying to decide if I'm old enough yet to be allowed to be crotchety. I'm going for it: There isn't a studio system any more. If someone is offended about who played an ethnic part, let that person remake the movie with who they want. Please, however don't bring back the disparaging insulting forms of blackface and yellowface.
Peter O'Toole said he was trained to play anything. Yet today there seems to be pressure that an actor can only play his or her ethnicity. Then what is the profession of acting if only playing themselves?
Studios were narrow sighted to develop only Anglos. After all, what's more bizarre than John Wayne as Genghis Khan saying "my Mother.."? Was an Asian available, would a different Anglo actor in yellow-face have been better as Genghis?
My viewpoint is Williams and O'Toole are right. Maybe it's an old fashioned idea. Now we are limiting all actors to specific ethnic roles. Omar Sharif was Egyptian, what a limited career he would have had!
I think the focus should be: does this part require a specific nationality or race? I'm trying to decide if I'm old enough yet to be allowed to be crotchety. I'm going for it: There isn't a studio system any more. If someone is offended about who played an ethnic part, let that person remake the movie with who they want. Please, however don't bring back the disparaging insulting forms of blackface and yellowface.