• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Tim Burton explained why his projects are full of white people as Netflix’s Wednesday is accused of being 'racist'

Home> Film & TV

Published 14:20 2 Dec 2022 GMT

Tim Burton explained why his projects are full of white people as Netflix’s Wednesday is accused of being 'racist'

He said projects either 'call for things or they don't'

Emma Guinness

Emma Guinness

Netflix's hit teen horror drama Wednesday has recently come under fire for claims of alleged racism in its casting.

Now, people are looking back to Tim Burton's previous explanation about why his cinematic projects tend to be full of white people.

The director, 64, previously hit out at racism accusations after he was slammed for a lack of diversity in his 2016 film, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Some of the criticism recently directed at Wednesday includes claims that its villainous characters are all people of colour.

Advert

One viewer slammed: "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 second said they found the whole thing difficult to watch because of the alleged racism, writing: "Trying to badly to push pass the racist and anti-Black undertones in the Wednesday Addams Netflix show.

"Like whoever thought making the Black man as the owner of a pilgrim amusement park is literally going to HELL."

Wednesday has come under fire for its characterisation.
Netflix

Advert

Burton earlier said of his alleged racist characterisation to Bustle that his projects 'either call for things, or they don't.'

The director elaborated: "I remember back when I was a child watching The Brady Bunch 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 - 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."

When it came to Wednesday specifically, one of Burton's representatives dismissed a request for comment on the allegations, describing them as 'silly'.

Advert

Netflix

The representative told The New York Post: "I'm not forwarding a comment request this silly to Tim."

However, while Burton has had his critics when it comes to the show, other viewers have argued that it goes some way in providing positive representation for people of colour.

One remarked to the critics: "Y'all shut up!

Advert

"The Black girl was also classified as the prettiest most popular girl in the school. A Black girl with NON Eurocentric features. A Black girl with a short cut. A non mixed girl. She's classified as the prettiest!!! They really did a thing."

Netflix declined to comment when UNILAD reached out for comment.

Featured Image Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo / Netflix

Topics: Film and TV

Emma Guinness
Emma Guinness

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

4 hours ago
5 hours ago
6 hours ago
16 hours ago
  • 4 hours ago

    Cult classic film removed from Disney+ over controversial scene that had it banned from TV

    The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has long expressed its concerns about the scene in the 1989 movie

    Film & TV
  • 5 hours ago

    Netflix viewers urge Ozark fans to add 'absolute must-see series' to their watchlist

    Fans of the well-loved show starring Jason Bateman are being told to watch another series on Netflix

    Film & TV
  • 6 hours ago

    Vin Diesel hints Paul Walker could be in upcoming Fast and Furious movie and it's left fans very divided

    He's desperate to reunite Dom and Brian

    Film & TV
  • 16 hours ago

    Perfect Netflix series hailed as must watch hidden gem as fans binge for 16,500,000 hours

    'Gut-bustlingly funny'

    Film & TV
  • Tim Burton explains why his films have so many white people as Beetlejuice 2 is labeled 'racist'
  • Tim Burton reveals the one movie that almost made him retire
  • One of Netflix's most watched series is being called a '10/10' by 'disaster' fans
  • People are shocked after finding out Mia Goth's real full name