58008@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL that the characters of Vasquez in Aliens (1986) and the stepmother in Terminator 2 (1991) were played by the same actor, Jenette Goldstein, apparently donning brownface for the earlier rolelemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1489arrow-down130file-text
arrow-up1459arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the characters of Vasquez in Aliens (1986) and the stepmother in Terminator 2 (1991) were played by the same actor, Jenette Goldstein, apparently donning brownface for the earlier rolelemmy.world58008@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square98fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenoodle (he/him)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down12·5 months agoah, so hiring a white actor to play a Black person in blackface would be okay, then
minus-squareRejZoR@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down4·5 months agoIf black people can play a white person, then absolutely. White Chicks, best white face ever. Tropical Thunder, best black face ever. I’ll see my way out.
minus-squareexasperation@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 months agoIn both of those examples, the actors played characters of their own race, pretending to be another race as the plot of the respective movies.
ah, so hiring a white actor to play a Black person in blackface would be okay, then
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If black people can play a white person, then absolutely. White Chicks, best white face ever. Tropical Thunder, best black face ever. I’ll see my way out.
In both of those examples, the actors played characters of their own race, pretending to be another race as the plot of the respective movies.