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http://www.eonline.com/news/474574/...the-new-black-character-for-halloween-costume

Julianne Hough opted for a controversial Halloween costume, donning blackface while dressing up as a character from the hit series Orange Is the New Black at a Halloween party on Friday, Oct. 25.

The 25-year-old actress was Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren from the Netflix series, but we are willing to bet that all eyes at the Beverly Hills bash were on Hough for her surprising costume choice.

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Update: Julianne Hough apologized on Twitter for her Crazy Eyes costume on Saturday, Oct 26 writing: "I am a huge fan of the show Orange is the New black, actress Uzo Aduba, and the character she has created. It certainly was never my intention to be disrespectful or demeaning to anyone in any way. I realize my costume hurt and offended people and I truly apologize."

The Orange is the New Black character her costume was inspired by

And here's what she looks like out of costume, for those unfamiliar with her

 

[DMczaf]

It's too bad FMT is married now.

 

[many places]

I don't think it was her intention to offend...
She was cosplaying o_o

 

[SamVimes]

It can work, you just need to make it tasteful:

 

[bjork]

She can dress like that every day as long as she promises to never make any more music.

 

[GK86]

Nice body.

 

[Espresso]

Is this supposed to be offensive?

 

[Dai101]

Is this supposed to be offensive?

Yep.

 

[livestOne]

I think were losing meaning of the word blackface

 

[Mercury Fred]

Good lord, what a dumb asshole. I'm so fucking sick of mindless, straight, white "celebrities" shitting up the world for everyone else.

 

[Vyroxis]

Is this supposed to be offensive?

White people cosplaying anyone other than white people is supposed to be offensive. For reasons that I can't seem to understand myself, but it is.

 

[Guevara]

I think dressing as a specific black person is ok, if nothing else about it is offensive. The trouble begins when you dress as a stereotype.

(but I might be wrong)

 

[Alligatorjandro]

why did she have to paint her skin?

 

[PSYGN]

I love how this country is oversensitive to everything.

 

[The Mana Legend]

Quick everyone, lets rage for no reason.

 

[jerry1594]

She's hot. Should know better than to dress up as a character consisting of stupid caricature (disclaimer: I haven't watched they show).

 

[RangersFan]

Not blackface.

 

[shuri]

Good lord, what a dumb asshole. I'm so fucking sick of mindless, straight, white "celebrities" shitting up the world for everyone else.

Why are you bringing up her sexual orientation? I don't get it. Please explain yourself. I don't see the link between this and her S.O

 

[TheKaeptain]

More proof everyone would look better with darker skin.

 

[LQX]

Seems odd to consider that "blackface" especially being that it does not look demeaning.

 

[santi_yo]

This is the kind of things I don't get about the US culture. How can it be offensive to anyone?

 

[mollipen]

I am white, so I understand that I probably don't understand, but I don't see what's wrong with this. When it's blackface used to refer to blackface, or to mock another race, or done in questionable taste, I totally get why that's really not a cool thing to do.

Here, it's a costume based around a character she likes, and where the make-up was done to better portray the character, not to tap into any racial meaning.

Again, I get that I, being white, don't get to judge why this is right or wrong. But I also think sometimes we paint too broad a brush in the "what's offensive" argument (something I constantly say in other conversations where I am directly involved in the social aspect of the topic).

 

[The Adder]

White people cosplaying anyone other than white people is supposed to be offensive. For reasons that I can't seem to understand myself, but it is.

I don't paint myself white to be Superman.

To quote myself

The thing is that this isn't, as far as I see it at least, about blackface. It's about people distilling characters, people, and entire cultures down to a superficial feature or two.

Jules chose his occupation. He created his speech pattern. He picked his weapon of choice. And he decide on his facial hair and gerry curl.

Jules didn't choose his skin color.

The problem with this whole thing is that it values skin color over anything else as an indicator. It devalues tge person, people, or peoples you are portraying.

Someone with a note perfect Jules costume who had the portrayal down pat? That impresses me. Someone painted brown in a suit does not.

 

[JesseEwiak]

This is the kind of things I don't get about the US culture. How can it be offensive to anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show

 

[The Mana Legend]

Seems odd to consider that "blackface" especially being that it does not look demeaning.

People seem to forget what blackface really is.

 

[Satch]

*white guy voice* but how is that offensive?

 

[Azuran]

People trying to get offended at this perfectly shows that the word blackface has lost all meaning by now.

 

[Kusagari]

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like a really bad tan more than blackface?

 

[lamaroo]

She's hot. Should know better than to dress up as a character consisting of stupid caricature (disclaimer: I haven't watched they show).

For the record, she's a great character.

 

[Slayven]

Why you have to paint your skin?

 

[fanboi]

Oh a blackface thread again.

This is not blackface, well at least according to that it need to be satirically with strange proportions.

 

[Deleted member 325805]

That isn't "blackface", and she had no reason to apologize.

 

[bishoptl]

I'll be back

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Why is it not blackface?

And why did she have to paint her skin?

 

[Mattlikewhoa]

Ah it's almost Halloween, so I'm sure there will be more of this popping up...

 

[Slayven]

That isn't "blackface", and she had no reason to apologize.

She defined a character by the color of her skin. It's insulting.

 

[Riggs]

Lol fuck apologizing, horrible costume tho looks nothing like crazy eyes.

 

[jediyoshi]

She defined a character by the color of her skin. It's insulting.

You know those aren't her normal clothes, right?

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

i would say [insert non-black people telling black people to get over it here] but it seems that has already happened

god bless, neogaf.

 

[Slayven]

You know those aren't her normal clothes, right?

Being a prisoner is her character, being black isn't.

 

[Devolution]

Should have done her hair a bit better. I'm sure people would recognize who she is. The face paint is just lol you're kind of stupid.

 

[Jest Chillin]

If the costume she wore was exactly the same without the painted skin, people would still immediately have known who she was portraying. You don't need to paint your skin to be a black character anymore than a black person needs to paint their skin white to play a white character. How people fail to understand this, I simply don't understand.

 

[Yaboosh]

Apologizing is just stupid. Don't act like you didn't know what you were doing. Either own it because you don't think it should be offensive or don't do it at all.

 

[Riggs]

If the costume she wore was exactly the same without the painted skin, people would still immediately have known who she was portraying. You don't need to paint your skin to be a black character anymore than a black person needs to paint their skin white to play a white character. How people fail to understand this, I simply don't understand.

And a lot of us don't think this was even remotely offensive. That pic of white dude in black face is just plain racism posted above. This isn't the same but everyone will be offended it seems.

 

[nateeasy]

White people are offended by everything anymore.

 

[jediyoshi]

Being a prisoner is her character, being black isn't.

Now that's offensive and you're just going based purely off appearances.

 

[charsace]

She's a dumb ass. If she was more accurate with her hairstyle people would know who she is. Instead that stupid ass paint.

 

[jerry1594]

White people are offended by everything anymore.

this isn't make any sense

 

[Kinitari]

She defined a character by the color of her skin. It's insulting.

I don't think so. She did the hair, the outfit and she wanted to go the 'extra mile' and try and darken her skin. Was it on the mark? God no. Does this have anything to do with blackface? I don't think so.

As far as I know about blackface, it was because they didn't want black people acting in films, but wanted to portray black people in films. They also characterized black people 'comically' with their big lips and everything else. It was offense because it was a generalization, and it was offensive because it was indicative of the position black people were in back then.

However, someone darkening their skin because they want to portray someone with dark skin for halloween doesn't seem to fall in the same category. One, because this isn't an attempt to 'take the spot' of a black person. But also because there doesn't seem to be any 'characeturization' here. She tried to be as close to the mark as possible, and it was out of respect and like of the role, rather than out of a desire to portray this character as some... uncle tom or thief or slave or whatever.

 

[GhettoGamer]

If the costume she wore was exactly the same without the painted skin, people would still immediately have known who she was portraying. You don't need to paint your skin to be a black character anymore than a black person needs to paint their skin white to play a white character. How people fail to understand this, I simply don't understand.

A thousands times this