It is time for the truth to turn on.
The main writer of “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”, Tony Oliver, admitted that it was a mistake to launch a black actor in the role of Black Power Ranger and an Asian actor like the Power Ranger.
“None or us [were] Thinking the stereotypes, “Oliver shared the new series of research discovery” Hollywood Demons. “
Walter Emanuel Jones, a black man, portrayed “Zack Taylor” as the Ranger Black and Thuy Trang, an Asian woman, such as the yellow rangers “Trini Kwan” in the Emmy nominated series that worked for two seasons in the 90s.
Oliver said he never connected the points on stereotypes until his assistant “pointed him out at a meeting one day.”
“It was a big mistake,” said Oliver.
Jones openly joked on the set about Casting’s decision.
“My name is Walter Jones. I play Zack. I’m black and I play the Black Ranger – Go Figure,” Jones said in an old video of the set that appeared in the discovery of research.
On Wednesday, Jones opposes Oliver’s admission, describing the role of “a milestone” and “an honor.”
“I understand the impulse of addressing what could be Sene as cultural inensitivity, but calling it a” error “would rule out the impact it had on innumerable people around the world who found inspiration and representation in the first black superhero black superhero rivernery of black superhero” ranger “ranger.”
“It was a mistake; it was a milestone. It was an honor.”
Jones said that “he never bothered” being the black ranger during his time in the program.
“I was happy for that when I saw the demand for the first time,” Jones said in the Toon’d with the podcast Jim Cummings, released last month.
“I could see myself great in Ed. I know that I do not see myself great in blue because it is what black is what I wanted to use. When I saw it, I said” I want this “and I said” that is yours. “
Initially, Trang was the first option for Ranger Yellow.
Audri Dubois, a fifth grade black belt with several ethnic history that included Hispanic and Asian roots, was chosen in the pilot episode, but could not join the program due to a salary dispute.
According to the investigation discovery episode, the original program had a non -trade union cast with actors such as Austin St. John, David Yost and Dubois, who were relatively inexperienced for television.
According to the reports, the producers paid the actors around $ 750 per half -hour episode, they even thought that leadership in other television union programs were earning tens of thousands of dollars in each episode.
Dubois tried to negotiate more for each episode “to be able to make a living” in Los Angeles, but those efforts failed and could not continue.
This opened by Trang to join the series and be edited in the pilot’s scenes, initially played by Dubios.
Jones and Trang left the series in the mid -second season due to the contractual and payment disps.
