Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters using Blackface while chatting with Bill Maher.
The 87-year-old Star Wars actor dropped by Maher's podcast Club Random in an episode released Sunday on its YouTube channel.
Billy Dee Williams, 87, defended actors' right to play characters in Blackface while chatting with Bill Maher, 68, on his Club Random podcast episode from Sunday. 'I fell out laughing,' a clearly delighted Williams added. 'I thought it was hysterical! I loved it! I loved it!''Why?' Williams asked with a surprised expression.
'But it didn't matter!' the Batman actor shot back, before saying it was important to 'not go through life feeling like a victim.' 'I refuse to go through life saying to the world,"I'm pissed off." I'm not gonna be pissed off 24 hours a day,' he added before moving on to the next topic. When the filmmaker Joel Schumacher took over the franchise from Burton with 1995's Batman Forever, he returned to the Two-Face character but instead cast Tommy Lee Jones in the role instead of Williams.
Detractors object not only to Olivier's use of Blackface, but also too some of his mannerisms, as the late thespian has been accused of playing to racial stereotypes about Black people, though Williams clearly thought the actor and filmmaker intended to critique those stereotypes.
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