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EDITOR’S NOTE: Multimedia journalist Rae Williams spoke with Janelle James ... John Lewis and the late actor Ruby Dee. Harris was honored during the ceremony along with the Wayans family. The family ...
Like with Billy Dee Williams’ Two-Face ... Close enough for Burton’s choice, Marlon Wayans, to still get paid for Returns. His character may have been excised during pre-production due ...
The book sees Billy Dee Williams’ Harvey Dent become Two-Face, while also introducing a version of Robin modeled after Marlon Wayans (who at one point was attached to play the role in Batman Returns).
They published Batman '89, a sequel to Returns featuring a Billy Dee Williams-inspired Two-Face and Marlon Wayans-inspired Robin. They followed that comic up with Batman '89: Echoes, which ...
Burton had reportedly eyed Robin Williams to play the Riddler and Marlon Wayans as Dick Grayson. Batman Continues also would have brought back Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Billy Dee ...
Billy Dee Williams was set to play both Harvey Dent ... of Robin (now the original character Drake Winston), using Marlon Wayans’ likeness as a nod to Wayans nearly playing the Boy Wonder ...
Marlon Wayans has opened up ... "When I was 19, I got Batman," said Wayans. "I was going to be the first Black person besides Billy D [Williams] to be in one of these big movies.
Billy Dee Williams gave fellow actors the green light to “do anything you want to do” for their work — including using blackface. Williams, who is the first Black actor to be prominently ...
Billy Dee Williams is perfectly fine with actors donning blackface for a role. The “Star Wars” actor, 87, gave his take on the controversial subject in an interview with Bill Maher ...
"Star Wars" icon Billy Dee Williams floored liberal comedian Bill Maher while arguing that actors should be allowed to perform in "blackface." On Sunday's installment of the "Club Random" podcast ...
Actor Billy Dee Williams has said there is nothing wrong with performers wearing blackface, because “if you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do.” Speaking to Bill Maher on the ...