Blackface/Tardface...

So. Once upon a time, blackface was a thing. It was even a genre in performance, with minstrel shows and "Amos & Andy" on TV. Or the movie "Soul Man." It has, to say the least, fallen out of favor. Or ...yellowface(?) "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Wonderful film. Great soundtrack. And...Mickey Rooney as a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese man. So what about 'Tardface?

The 80s lawyer drama "L.A. Law" featured Benny, a retarded employee. Benny was played by...Larry Drake(?) who is NOT retarded. A few years later we got some family show..."Life Goes On"(?) which featured Corky, a retarded kid, who was played by an actual retarded kid. So now, in 2019, would it be wrong for a non-retarded actor* to play a retarded character?

I ask because I got to thinking about the novel "Flowers for Algernon," the story of Charlie, a retarded person who undergoes an experimental procedure to make him normal. Unfortunately the experiment fails and he loses his increased capacity. (Does he die in the end? I forget.) Anyway, it's been made into a movie at least once. But how do you do it now? Cast a normal person to play a retard for part of the movie or hire a retard to play a normal person for part of the movie?

I am sure it will be figured out.

Ooh. Sean Penn. I'm pretty sure he's successfully played a non-retarded character. I can't think of any, off the top of my head, but it seems like he has at some point. Of course he's probably too old at this point.

Get an actor to switch from the Democrat party to something else mid-way through filming the picture.

I could do that. I'm a good actor.

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