Donald Kaufman
Here’s a fictional character that is 100% made up. In 2002’s hit film Adaptation, Nicholas Cage played Donald Kaufman, a character the audience is led to believe is the brother of someone called Charlie. Viewers were convinced that the screenwriter, Charlie, actually had a brother named Donald. As it turns out, Donald was completely made up, and thought up in a moment of quiet inspiration while working on the script. It’s starting to feel a little bit like Inception, over here.
Donald Kaufman
Jim Crow
Although popularised by wildly outdated and tone-deaf blackface theatre sketches many decades ago, today the term “Jim Crow” more commonly refers to laws that were once used to restrict the rights of Black Americans. The fictional character of Jim Crow was played by Thomas D. Rice, a caucasian actor who lived and worked in a time before the world had woken up to some of its self-created systemic racism. Thankfully, that is all starting to change as a result of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Jim Crow
