Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Criticized For “Browning Up” White Extras
Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Criticized In U.K. Media For “Browning Up” White Extras https://t.co/NZ2uHeacTy pic.twitter.com/cLpyoh2uFx
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) January 7, 2018
• From the Sunday Times, Kaushal Odedra, a stand in for one of the leads of the Guy Ritchie-directed, Will Smith-starring film, described seeing as many as twenty “very fair skinned” actors in line outside make-up tents “waiting to have their skin darkened.”
• The scenes are being filmed at Longcross studios in Surrey, the white actors were brought in to "fill in the many" background roles. There's also a reported 400 of 500 of background performers who are Indian, Middle Eastern, African, Mediterranean or Asian.
• Odedra said of the experience: "Disney are sending out a message that your skin colour, your identity, your life experiences amount to nothing that can be powered on and washed off,"
• The Times has reached out to Disney for comment.
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Lmao.
Edited at 2018-01-07 08:43 pm (UTC)
oh, fuck off
Now you KNOW they lying
Edited at 2018-01-07 06:34 pm (UTC)
Disney is just drowning in bullshit.
Here for that Tahani gif though. She is so damn cute.
Stick to what ur good at, Ritchie, leave brown people alone.
but not here for the removal of her biracial identity. people do this way too much.
Edited at 2018-01-07 06:54 pm (UTC)
You want to say that it's problematic that they didn't cast an Arab actress, that's one thing but she's definitely brown.
1. this was filmed in 2010
2. this was shown on one of the most popular british tv channels as a rerun
entertainers in the uk have always appeared in blackface/brownface. they dgaf if it's racist because they can use 'art' as an excuse.
Edited at 2018-01-07 06:58 pm (UTC)
David Walliams on the other hand remains a dick
fuck :) you :) and thanks for saying this so as to nicely remove yourself from considering this even remotely offensive. brownface IS terrible.
all your racism in a box to the left, please