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'Power Rangers' writer calls casting Black, Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers a 'mistake'
The show, which premiered in 1993 and spawned a pop culture phenomenon, cast a Black actor in the role of the black Power Ranger and an Asian actor as the Yellow ... a pattern of swapping out ...
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‘Power Rangers’ writer admits casting black, Asian actors as Black Ranger, Yellow Rangers was ‘such a mistake’ — but star disagrees
Trang initially wasn’t the first choice for Yellow Ranger. Audri Dubois, a 5th-degree black belt with a diverse ethnic background that included Hispanic and Asian roots, was cast in the pilot ...
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‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’
“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” head writer Tony Oliver admits in the new Investigation Discovery series “Hollywood Demons” that it was a “mistake” to cast a Black actor to play the Black Ranger and an ...
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‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers’ Head Writer Laments Racially Insensitive Casting Of Leads: “Such A Mistake”
who played the Black and Yellow Power Rangers, respectively, in the kids’ TV show. Oliver reflected on the series in Investigation Discovery’s newest episode of Hollywood Demons, per ...
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‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’
The series kicked off in August 1993 on Fox Kids with Walter Emanuel Jones as Zack Taylor (the first Black Ranger) and Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (the first Yellow Ranger). Oliver says in the ...
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“Power Rangers” writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger was 'such a mistake'
That's why he says that the series was able to get all the way to air — and run for two seasons — with "the Black character the Black Ranger and the Asian character the Yellow Ranger." ...
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Power Rangers writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was ‘mistake’
that we had made the Black character the Black Ranger and the Asian character the Yellow Ranger. It was such a mistake.” Oliver went on to point out that “Thuy was not our original Yellow ...