Billy Dee Williams, 87, tells Bill Maher that actors should be able to do blackface while criticizing “victim mentality”: “If you’re an actor, you should do whatever you want.”
WSTPost - 2024-04-09T04:42:10.000Z

Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters in blackface while chatting with Bill Maher.The 87-year-old Star Wars actor stopped by Maher's podcast Club Random in an episode posted on his YouTube channel on Sunday.When the topic turned to Laurence Olivier's portrayal of the title role in the 1965 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, Williams was pleased with Olivier's parodies of stereotypes associated with black people.But the 68-year-old Real Time host - who... Read this story