{"id":37456,"date":"2014-09-22T21:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37456"},"modified":"2014-09-22T21:28:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:28:23","slug":"heres-why-louis-cks-kids-are-white-but-their-mother-is-black-in-louie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37456","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Why Louis CK’s Kids Are White But Their Mother Is Black In ‘Louie’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s Why Louis CK’s Kids Are White But Their Mother Is Black In ‘Louie’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Business Insider<\/a>
\n2014-09-18<\/p>\n

Aly Weisman<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n

There’s one mystery on FX<\/a> show “Louie<\/a>” that has never really been addressed.<\/p>\n

While Louie’s ex-wife “Janet” is played by black, Jamaican actress Susan Kelechi Watson<\/a>, his two daughters are very white, very blonde little girls.<\/p>\n

Despite leaving viewers guessing about the backstory of the relationships, the race issue has never been fully explained on the show \u2014 and that’s intentional.<\/p>\n

“We play around with ethnicities. Janet is African-American, but both of their kids are white and Louie\u2019s white so how does that work? Look, it probably doesn\u2019t make sense but Louie wanted to cast someone to play his on-screen ex-wife who was unlike his real ex-wife,” casting director Gayle Keller<\/a> tells Business Insider<\/em>. “He didn\u2019t want that much reality in this show.”<\/p>\n

But the race of the actress wasn’t necessarily a premeditated decision, Louis<\/a> just thought Watson was the best person for the part.<\/p>\n

“We auditioned people who were African-American and white, we auditioned both,” explains Keller. “We didn\u2019t limit ourselves to someone who was just Caucasian. Louis just felt that the woman who we cast [Watson] was best for the part and she happened to be African-American and he didn\u2019t care about that. He didn\u2019t feel like he had to explain that in any way and have two Caucasian children and an African-American wife.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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