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☆ 'Star Wars' actor Billy Dee Williams says blackface should be allowed, and that he 'loved' one of its most notorious uses
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Billy Dee Williams said that actors should be allowed to use blackface. The "Star Wars" actor said he loved Laurence Olivier as Othello, a blackface performance many regard with horror. Advertisement"Star Wars" actor Billy Dee Williams said that actors should be allowed to use blackface, reopening a topic widely considered taboo. Williams, who is Black, broached the topic in an interview with Bill Maher, speaking in support of being able to use blackface. He was also the first Black actor to play a leading role in the "Star Wars" movies.

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☆ Billy Dee Williams says actors should be allowed to wear blackface
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

I love that kind of stuff.”The origins of blackface date back to the minstrel shows of the mid-19th century. You should do it.”“If you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do,” he said. Williams, who is best known for playing Lando Calrissian in the “Star Wars” franchise, pushed back. I don’t want to do anything based on this whole idea that ‘you’re a Black person, you’re a White person’ and things of that nature,” he said. I’m a creative entity in this life.”In 2019, Williams spoke about embracing the different parts of his character by using gender-fluid pronouns.

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☆ Billy Dee Williams told Donald Glover to 'just be charming' as Lando Calrissian in 'Star Wars': 'In my mind there was and ever will be only one Lando, and that's me.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Portraits of a Life," Billy Dee Williams recalled the advice he gave to Donald Glover before he played the young Lando Calrissian in "Solo: A Star Wars Story." Glover is, however, developing a future "Lando" movie to star in himself. Advertisement"In the spirit of full disclosure, I wished that I had been able to jump back in time to play young Lando, because in my mind there was and ever will be only one Lando, and that's me," he said. The pair discussed why Lando was so iconic in the first place, as Williams wrote: "I didn't play Lando as a Black man," I explained. In 2017, Glover told The Hollywood Reporter that he dissected a number of ideas about Lando to Williams.

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Bulloch a interpretat rolul vânătorului de recompense Boba Fett în filmele „The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) și „Return of the Jedi” (1983). Anunțul decesului a fost făcut de agentul său: „Anunțăm cu tristețe moartea actorului Jeremy Bulloch. Jeremy a avut o carieră lungă și fericită de peste 45 de ani. A fost devotat soției sale, celor trei fii și celor 10 nepoți cărora le va lipsi foarte mult. Bulloch, originar din regiunea Leicestershire, Anglia, a interpretat roluri și în filme din seria James Bond și în câteva episoade ale serialului Doctor Who.

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☆ Actorul Jeremy Bulloch, interpretul personajului Boba Fett din franciza „Star Wars”, a murit la 75 de ani
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-18 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

"Jeremy a avut o viaţă lungă şi fericită în calitate de actor şi era cunoscut mai ales pentru rolurile sale din filmele 'Summer Holiday', 'Star Wars' şi 'James Bond'", precizează acelaşi mesaj online. A devenit cunoscut mai ales cu rolul Boba Fett, un personaj preferat al fanilor francizei "Star Wars", pe care l-a jucat în filmele "Imperiul contraatacă" şi "Întoarcerea lui Jedi". Mai mulţi colegi din distribuţia filmelor "Star Wars" i-au adus un ultim omagiu prin intermediul unor mesaje publicate pe reţelele de socializare. "Jeremy Bulloch era chintesenţa gentlemanului englez", a declarat Mark Hamill, interpretul personajului Luke Skywalker, într-un mesaj pe Twitter. Billy Dee Williams, care a interpretat personajul Lando Calrissian, a publicat următorul mesaj pe aceeaşi platformă de microblogging: "Astăzi, l-am pierdut pe cel mai bun vânător de recompense din galaxie... Odihneşte-te în pace, Jeremy Bulloch".

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