Yes. This happened.
https://youtu.be/UqeToakrEJk
https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/f0tssl/in_1993_unsolved_mysteries_decided_to_put_a_white/
Am I bothered? Should we be bothered?
shareOutside of the reddit claim, which is hardly a credible news source, nothing supports this. Feel free to provide some credible evidence.
shareYou can see it in the Youtube video. The video link is also in the reddit thread.
shareI didn't find the video convincing. Did the actor look weird ? Yes.
Why would NBC hire a white man to blackface a role? It's not like UM didn't hire black actors in the frigging 1990's.
If this were true, cast and crew involved would be selling, I mean telling, the story and NBC would be making apologies like nobody's business.
All the actors on that show looked weird
shareYes, especially Matthew McConaughey!
https://external-preview.redd.it/u2zBsiOJtJvPlyn_Rmu3Qi3mTXfYBKGlg-9jK3rvqFo.png?auto=webp&s=9489b7b73e599e1e550b3e1e82fa5d25e7be5cc8
I didn’t even know ! I was watching 90’s twilight zone and 80s as well it was weird to see Bruce Willis calling himself on the phone and Katherine higel trying to kill baby hitler
shareI don't know why, but it's clearly a guy with dark make-up on and he looks white to me. Maybe they filmed on location and there were no professional black actors available.
shareMaybe like you said, there were no black actors available. Maybe the original actor backed out at last minute and they needed to film quickly. It's just an actor playing a role.
share"Maybe they filmed on location and there were no professional black actors available." You mean other than the several black actors in the segment? Besides UM seldom used professional actors.
shareMatthew McConaughey comes to mind. Or even an actor from the local amateur theater group. Being an extra is something else.
I don't know what the reason is, but there has to be one besides something racist. The dude is obviously a white guy in blackface, though.
Talk about a storm in a glass of water.
shareVery strange. Sure it's questionable & offensive I'm more interested in knowing exactly what led to the decision. Were they behind schedule & didn't have the time to do a casting call? Perhaps they were just doing some trolling in the waining year(s) of the show & played the whole thing totally straight for laughs.
shareI was accused of 'black face' by impersonating Quincy Jones in a youtube video that has over 300,000 views. I read the quotes that Quincy made against Michael Jackson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAqe4QW3_Q0
Let me know what you think of my impersonation. Some blacks found it funny, some said it was disgusting.
So what? If it's true, I don't have any problem with it.
shareThe video is removed but you can find the scene if you search "Unsolved Mysteries blackface". And there's a black actor playing a cop sitting next to the guy, so there goes your bullshit reasoning for why it happened.
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