Who remembers "Let's get cracking with the knacking" on Bo Selecta lol. The whole show was surreal and none of it had anything to do with mocking race.

Edited by BlueJay (14 Jun 2020 10.48pm)

If they use black and Asian actors to play these characters then there would never have been a problem, it would just be people taking the mickey out of themselves instead of being seen as racist and insulting.
There you go, problem solved!

If you follow that logic to the end it means that characters can only be portrayed by actors with the same characteristics e.g. a handicapped actor can only play a handicapped character. I thought the point of acting was for the actor to play somebody other than themselves.

One more point

And Bugs Bunny isn’t even real. They used drawings or something.

Indeed. I recall reading about David Bowie playing John Merrick in a stage production of 'The Elephant Man' where he conveyed the character's predicament using mime alone. Tell that to today's luvvies!

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Talking of 'luvvies', will the likes of Sir Larry(Olivier), Noel Coward et al all have to apologise for playing 'Othello' by that great British Playwright 'Shakespeare'?

I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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