Let Actors Do Blackface, Says ...

“When he did Othello, I fell out laughing,” [Billy Dee] Williams said of Olivier on Sunday’s episode of Club Random With Bill Maher. In the 1965 film, Olivier wore blackface to play the film’s titular character. “He stuck his ass out and walked around because Black people are supposed to have big asses.”

Maher replied to Williams’ comment by saying, “Today, they would never let you do that.”

Williams then asked Maher, “Why?” to which Maher asked, in shock: “Blackface?”

“Why not? You should do it,” Williams said. “If you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do.”