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China McClain Speaks Out About Being Told How to Play Authentic Black Characters

Actress China McClain is educating people on social media about the Black experience. McClain, who is 21 years old said she and her sisters (Lauryn and Sierra) have dealt with being told by white people how they should act when playing Black characters. McClain said, "I can't tell you how many conversations, sometimes arguments. It's escalated to that... Back and forth with white people telling me what would be most authentic coming out of my Black character's mouth." The actress said that if she wrote a script about another culture and was told by an actor of that culture that the script didn't sound authentic to the culture, she would tell them to do what they thought would make it authentic. China McClain as the character "Uma" for Disney's Descendants The actress gave an example of her being a writer who writes a script centered around an Asian man. Once casting begins and an Asian actor is found to play the ro...