He's merely part of the background.Īnd though it wears its politics very lightly, Lupin is shot through with an awareness of race, be it a bigoted store owner trying to ruin the young Assane or an old woman prattling on about the glories of colonialism. One reason Assane's disguises work so well is that, when he dresses up as a janitor or delivery man, the people he's fooling don't see him as an individual who matters. For starters, the show plays on the fact that Black people are so often invisible to the white majority. In updating the Lupin saga, Kay grasped that having the hero be Black would actually make the story richer and more of our moment.
The show plays on the fact that Black people are so often invisible to the white majority.
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