24th July 2020, 02:56 PM
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 | Cult Don | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Childhood home of Billy Idol - Orpington | |
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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) in a rare colour photo from Power of the Daleks (1966) | Just imagine how much we would have lost if Pat had played the role in his preferred way - in blackface! "In 1966, character actor Patrick Troughton was poised to take over the role. Afraid of being typecast and worried that being so identified with a children’s show would ruin his career, he toyed with ways of disguising his appearance. According to interviews he gave after leaving the role, his preferred method was to play the character as a sort of Captain Nemo: complete with turban and dark skin. Since he was white, this would naturally require him blacking up for the role; a costume method was still unfathomably acceptable in the ’60s. In the end, the producer squashed his idea, asking him to instead play the character as a sort of intergalactic Charlie Chaplin." ‘Doctor Who’ Was Nearly Played In Blackface | Knowledgenuts
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