Dan Aykroyd ‘wouldn’t choose to do blackface’ again after ‘Trading Places’
nypost.comThe Daily Beast about the film, which follows his character, a wealthy investment broker, switching places with a broke con artist (played by Murphy, 62).In one scene of the R-rated comedy, Aykroyd appears in blackface while wearing dreadlocks and speaking in a Caribbean accent.“I was in blackface in that film, and I probably couldn’t get away with it now,” Aykroyd told the outlet last week. “Eddie and I were improvising there.
Eddie is a black man, and his entourage were all black people, and I don’t think they batted an eye. There was no objection then; nobody said anything.
It was just a good comic beat that was truthful to the story.”Aykroyd continued: “I probably wouldn’t choose to do a blackface part, nor would I be allowed to do it.
I probably wouldn’t be allowed to do a Jamaican accent, white face or black. In these days we’re living in, all that’s out the window.
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