Billy Porter says Donald Trump would be in jail if he was Black
Speaking on BBC Newsnight, Porter discussed the re-election of Donald Trump and the challenges faced by Democrats and activists in the United States.
Porter speculated that Donald Trump 's re-election was a 'backlash' to the election of President Obama.
He asserted that 'America is a racist country' in his discussion.
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The Guardian
12 minutes ago
- The Guardian
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Times
14 minutes ago
- Times
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Actors are meant to be convincing in whatever role they play — but Michael Madsen feared he overdid it as Mr Blonde, gleefully torturing an undercover cop tied to a chair in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs while dancing to Stealers Wheel's 1970s hit Stuck In The Middle with You. For good measure, he then sliced off the policeman's ear with a menacing, shark-like grin. 'I think I've been more believable than I should have been,' he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. 'I think people really fear me. They see me and go: 'Holy shit, there's that guy!'' Madsen did not play only psychopaths and sadists, and the film he made straight after Reservoir Dogs was Free Willy in which he played Glen Greenwood, the tender-hearted foster father of the 12-year-old orphaned boy who befriends a captive orca in a theme park. 'The oddest thing is when children recognise me from Free Willy and their parents recognise me from Reservoir Dogs,' he noted. 'The kids are like, 'There's Glen!' and the parents are like, 'Don't go near that guy!''
