Released on November 23 on Netflix, the “Wednesday” series was immediately a huge success. To date, Tim Burton’s achievement is even ranked number 1 in more than 80 countries around the world. A success for the filmmaker as for Jenna Ortega, the interpreter of the heroine, who has caused a lot of ink to flow since the broadcast of the episodes on the video on demand service at N rouge.
“Racists”, “anti-blacks”
But while the work seems to be unanimous, some moviegoers couldn’t help but point out a disturbing detail. “Don’t get me wrong. I love Jenna Ortega and seeing her play Wednesday, but one of the things I hate about this show is why did they make all the black characters bad people? How could Netflix not see it was a mistake? “, “It takes me a lot of effort to overcome the racist and anti-black underlays in the series Wednesday of Netflix. Like, the person who imagined seeing a black man being the owner of a park dedicated to the Pilgrim Fathers deserves to go to hell”, could we read on Twitter. Indeed, Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday), Wednesday’s rival, Lucas Wilson (Iman Marson), the Mayor’s son or even Noble Walker (Tommie Earl Jenkins), the mayor, are all… black in skin.
This is not the first time that Tim Burton has faced such accusations. A few years earlier, it was the feature film “Miss Peregrine”, which had aroused strong reactions. Internet users were indignant at not seeing enough diversity in the cast. “Nowadays people talk about it more… But either things bring that diversity or they don’t need it. I remember when I was a kid watching The Brady Bunch and they started getting politically correct. Like, okay, now let’s take an Asian kid, and a black one. And I was more offended by this way of doing things. I grew up watching the Blaxploitation movies and I thought it was awesome. I never went there thinking, ok, they should have more white people in it”replied the filmmaker who wishes to remain silent in the face of this new controversy.
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