Billy Dee Williams, 87, tells Bill Maher that actors should be able to do Blackface while slamming ‘victim’ mentality: ‘If you’re an actor you should do anything you want’

Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters using Blackface while chatting with Bill Maher.

The 87-year-old Star Wars actor dropped by Maher’s podcast Club Random in an episode released Sunday on its YouTube channel.

When the subject turned to Laurence Olivier’s portrayal of the title role in the 1965 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, Williams was delighted at what he saw as Olivier’s parodies of stereotypes associated with Black people.

But the 68-year-old…