Bill Cosby is disgraced. But can he be erased? A new TV series wrestles with that question.
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Shortly after dozens of sexual abuse allegations surfaced against Bill Cosby, comedian W. Kamau Bell learned of a documentary that was being made about Black stunt performers — a community that exists as it does thanks in part to Cosby. When the actor starred in the television show “I Spy” in the 1960s, it was still common for producers to hire White stuntmen in skin-darkening makeup to double for Black actors. Cosby, however, had insisted his double be Black.
The makers of the stuntman film planned to tell the story of Cosby’s stand. But after the raft of credible sexual assault accusations, the director decided to jettison Cosby’s interview segments from the film, which was never released.
Hearing about the abandoned stuntman documentary was when Bell — the host of CNN’s “United Shades of America,” who specializes in hard conversations — realized it was time to start one of the hardest of his career: What to do with Bill Cosby?
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