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Billy Dee Williams says actors should be able to do blackface

Billy Dee Williams says actors should be able to do blackface: 'If you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do.'

The Star Wars actor shared his thoughts during this week's episode of Bill Maher's Club Random podcast while discussing the late actor and director Laurence Olivier, who famously used blackface in the title role of 1965's Othello. Portraits of a Life, which chronicles his childhood in Harlem leading up to his days on Broadway and in Hollywood. He famously portrayed the first Black character, Lando Calrissian, in the Star Wars universe.

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