Billy Dee Williams discusses his thoughts on actors wearing blackface.
The 87-year-old famous actor Club random Bill Maher’s Podcast.
“When he did ‘Othello,’ I laughed,” Williams recalled.
“He’s walking around with his butt out because black people are supposed to have big butts…” Williams said in the podcast, which premiered on Sunday, April 7. “I laughed out loud.”
“Bradley Cooper thinks there’s something wrong with his nose,” Maher said, referring to the prosthetic nose Cooper wears in the movie. Grandmaster Play the role of the great composer Leonard Bernstein.
Williams chimed in: “I think it’s hysterical. I love that kind of stuff.”
Maher continued the conversation and told Williams, “Today, they would never let you do that.”
When Williams asked “Why?” a shocked Maher replied: “Blackface?!”
Williams doubled down, telling Maher, “He should do this,” adding, “If you’re an actor, you should do whatever you want to do.”
Maher later said that Williams had “actually lived in a time period where you couldn’t do that. Where you couldn’t play the character.”
“But it doesn’t matter,” Williams countered. “The truth is… you don’t go through life feeling like ‘I’m the victim.'” I refuse to go through my life saying to the world, “I’m angry.” I’m not going to be angry 24 hours a day. “
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