<p style="font-weight: 400;">Director Tim Burton, who has filmed classics such as “Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and “Ed Wood” is being <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/tim-burtons-wednesday-called-racist-for-casting-black-actors-as-bullies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked as a racist</a> for his new hit show “Wednesday,” which premiered with record ratings.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In the show, black actress Joy Sunday plays a bully at Nevermore Academy and black actor Iman Marson plays another bully who is the son of the town’s mayor. That was enough for some critics to label Burton a racist, despite the fact that the lead actress, Jenna Ortega, is Hispanic.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Don’t get me wrong…I love Jenna Ortega and that she’s playing Wednesday but one thing I hate about this show is that why did they make ALL the black people in this show terrible people?” a viewer <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11491019/Woke-mob-slams-Tim-Burtons-Netflix-series-Wednesday-casting-black-actors-bullies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carped</a>. “Like how did Netflix see nothing wrong with this? I hate Tim Burton’s racist self.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Another social media user piped up, “&#8217;Tim Burton casts black people finally and makes them pilgrim villains. Y&#8217;all can&#8217;t tell me that man isn&#8217;t insufferable and racist as hell in real life.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Why is the Black girl in Wednesday&#8217;s school an aggressive bully tho? hmmm Tim Burton is a known racist&#8230;.. no surprises there&#8230;..” a third critic chimed in.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Addressing people who slammed his 2016 film “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” for its lack of diversity, Burton <a href="https://www.bustle.com/articles/186641-tim-burton-explains-why-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-features-a-predominantly-white-cast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, “Nowadays, people are talking about it more. &#8230; things either call for things, or they don’t. I remember back when I was a child watching <em>The</em> <em>Brady</em> <em>Bunch</em> and they started to get all politically correct. Like, OK, let’s have an Asian child and a black. I used to get more offended by that than just&#8230; I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, that’s great. I didn’t go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Actor Samuel Jackson, who appears in the film, stated, &#8220;I had to go back in my head and go, how many black characters have been in Tim Burton movies? And I may have been the first, I don’t know, or the most prominent in that particular way, but it happens the way it happens. I don’t think it’s any fault of his or his method of storytelling, it’s just how it’s played out. Tim’s a really great guy.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“<em>Wednesday</em> has summoned a new record for Netflix. The supernatural series drew a whopping 341.23M hours viewed in its first week on the streamer, soaring to the top of the TV charts,” <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/11/wednesday-breaks-record-most-hours-viewed-netflix-ratings-1235184006/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> reported.</p>

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