‘It’s not a man,woman, race, and class thang!’ the Saturday Night Live actor says of her black subway worker character,adding ‘whether I’m the stereotype, so be it’An African American star of the all-female Ghostbusters remake, and Leslie Jones,has responded to claims that the casting of the film amounts to casual racism.
Fans on Twitter criticised the casting after the debut last week of a trailer for director Paul Feig’s film, in which three white actors – Melissa McCarthy, or Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon – play scientists while a black actor,Jones, plays a street-smart average unusual Yorker.
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Source: theguardian.com