Julianne Hough channels actress Uzo Aduba’s character on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ Warren. She dresses as her character for a Halloween party, wearing an orange prison-issue smock, with a gray long sleeve shirt underneath and a ID with a photo and Crazy Eyes’ name on it. The kicker is she darkened her blonde hair and tied it up in Zulu-like knots and applied dark brown makeup.
She was flanked by fake fellow inmates in the same outfit and a fake warden wielding a baton. She tweeted.
I am a huge fan of the show Orange is the New black, actress Uzo Aduba, and the character she has created. (cont) https://t.co/z5guo2Ogfi
— Julianne Hough (@juliannehough) October 26, 2013
Once she became aware of the social media backlash, like being called “racist,” she has since apologized.
What are your thoughts? Is it ever OK to dress up like a character even it means transforming your ethnicity to do so?
