The Internet is still buzzing about white actor Travis Turner playing the role of a Black kid named PSI in the Netflix animated series “Spy Kids: Mission Critical.”
On Thursday we shared a clip of Turner being asked if he was worried about offending the Black community for playing such a role. In his response, the actor said since he grew up in motels and has a track with Snoop Dogg, he’s qualified to voice a Black person.
Bill Bellamy was asked about the casting decision…
“There’s a lot of actors, African American actors, that you can get to do that,” he said. “So they get a white kid to do a Black voice, you know it’s going to be, like, controversial, because it doesn’t make sense. It would be like a Chinese voice in animation … They would be mad, right?”
Source: Bill Bellamy Calls Netflix ‘Lazy’ For Casting White Actor to Voice Black Character
