A cast member from a 30-year-old Disney sports movie reveals that the studio wanted him to "sound like a black Aladdin" or Sebastian the Crab.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Cool Runnings director Jon Turteltaub and the cast open up about the controversy surrounding the characters’ Jamaican accents. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and released in 1993, Cool Runnings was based on the true story of the first Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Lewis: I saw it morph into the movie that it is now. It was something that had never been told before – Jamaicans in tights? People were like, "How’s this going to go under the Disney umbrella?" Yoba: They’d say, "People in Middle America won’t be able to understand you." At that time, people had less access to cultural differences and didn’t know how Jamaican really sounded.
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