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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake'

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'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake'

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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Former 'Power Rangers" head writer Tony Oliver says he now views the decision to cast a Black actor as the Black Ranger and an Asian actress as the Yellow Ranger as 'such a mistake.'

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This went way over my head and I was thinking: the writer’s taken their mask off as a racist??

Didn’t make the colour connection

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