Tituss Burgess as Rooster. The last high-profile African-American actress to be cast as “Annie” was Oscar-nominated Quvenzhané Wallis for a 2014 film that also starred Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan and Jamie Foxx as Daddy Warbucks.
Unfortunately — and all too predictably — there was a racist backlash among some “Annie” fans over the fact that the famous orphan was no longer a freckled redhead, as portrayed by Andrea McArdle in the 1977 Broadway musical. “So this #Annie movie is all wrong.
I wanna live in a colorless world but I will not stand for a black Annie. #EnoughSaid,” one Twitter user said. So far, there appears to be minimal online chatter spouting the same sentiments for the NBC special.The production will be the latest in NBC’s.
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