Brendan O'Carroll doesn't think 'Mrs. Brown's Boys' will ever be axed due to political correctness. The 65-year-old star admitted he often wonders if dressing up as a woman to play Agnes Brown is "the same as blackface", but he suggested playing her "as a woman" means he gets away with the character.
He told the Irish Sun newspaper: "I don’t think Mrs Brown will be affected, and I often question myself is Mrs Brown, me a man dressing up as a woman to play Mrs Brown the same as blackface? "And decided no it’s not, because I’ve never played Mrs Brown as a man playing a woman like they do in films like Mrs Doubtfire.
Agnes is a woman like Dame Edna. " Meanwhile, Brendan also pointed to his own morals - and the way he writes the script - as.
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