Following Rick and Morty’s second Emmy win for Animated Program tonight, co-creator/EP Dan Harmon was asked to weigh in on the controversy over white actors voicing characters of color that h…
“That issue, they call it the whitewashing thing if you will, that’s been going on for a while,” Harmon said during the Creative Emmys virtual backstage. “The wave has gotten to the point where it’s huge now, but we’ve been in that water for a bit.
He added: “But it gets into this weird question, ‘What if you didn’t find an actor from that particular group for representation purposes?’ or ‘What if that actor is the worst actor in the world?’ Those conversations are minefields.
“That’s not throwing anyone under the bus that has been doing that, because that was normal for a long time,” theEP continued. “We’re privileged because we have a sci-fi show and three quarters of the characters are from a different planetAdded EP Scott Marder, “I support the movement, and I think it’s moving in the right direction.”has been called out over one of the title characters, Rick, voiced by series co-creator/EP Justin Roiland, whose last name is Sanchez.
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