Fernanda Torres' Blackface controversy from an old comedy skit may have cost her the 2025 Oscar, despite her acclaimed role ...
It wouldn’t be awards season if there wasn’t some drama to go with it, and the 2025 Oscars were no exception. The Academy ...
The Brazilian actor claimed that at the time of the 2008 sketch, her home country had yet to become aware of the "racist history and symbolism of blackface." ...
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A clip of Torres had resurfaced, first filmed for a TV comedy sketch in 2008 in her native Brazil, in which she appeared in blackface, playing a character who works as a housekeeper. She was quick to ...
Torres said that the “racist history and symbolism of blackface hadn’t yet entered the mainstream public consciousness in Brazil” at the time of the incident but “it’s very clear now ...
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