Funny, you don’t look like an Aborigine

Some Aboriginal actors are being excluded from playing their own culture because they are ‘not black enough’.
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Shari Sebbens  (centre) with Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell in The Sapphires

Finding roles where you are considered a fit is tough for any actor. But casting and typecasting are particularly complicated issues for young Aboriginal actors, like the students in the Aboriginal Theatre program at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

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