via Backstage/Matt Doyle
On a Facebook troll/scroll I saw this sweet, short film on the Atlantic.com website. Michael K. Williams wonders aloud:
"Am I being typecast?" For actors of color “typecasting” tends to suggest stereotypical rather than archetypal characters. The effects that performing mis- or problematic representations have on the career choices, training, talent and inner lives of the actor (and of the people they work to enact as characters) underlie and animate movie-making comedies like Hollywood Shuffle (1987), the humorous UCB skit: Be Blacker, so many of Key and Peele’s code-switching sketches, as well as more incendiary media critiques like Spike Lee's Bamboozled. Films such as The Help, in this light, are complicated boils that need to be lanced.
Williams(and I’m looking for the production credits), thoughtfully untangles these complex questions with subtlety, self-deprecation and warm regard for his "peeps".
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