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Sarah Silverman reveals she was fired from a movie role the night before she was due to start shooting after her 2007 blackface sketch resurfaced

Sarah Silverman has admitted she was replaced in a recent movie role after producers saw a photo of a controversial sketch she performed...

Sarah Silverman has admitted she was replaced in a recent movie role after producers saw a photo of a controversial sketch she performed in 2007.
The actress and comedian has previously expressed her regret at the sketch from her TV series The Sarah Silverman Show, which saw her wear minstrel-like make-up.
She has now revealed in an interview on The Bill Simmons Podcast that bosses on a recent movie she was signed up for saw a photo of the sketch and promptly fired her.

The sketch saw the actress don blackface as she said ‘I look like the beautiful Queen Latifah’ before entering a baptist church and proclaiming: ‘I’m black today.’ 

Speaking on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Sarah explained: ‘I recently was going to do a movie, a sweet part, then at 11 p.m. the night before they fired me because they saw a picture of me in blackface from that episode. I didn’t fight it.’ 
The star said that she fully understood the decision but admitted that is was 'disheartening' because she's spent years trying to make up for the sketch. 
‘They hired someone else who is wonderful but who has never stuck their neck out. It was so disheartening. It just made me real real sad, because I really kind of devoted my life to making it right,' she said.
Speaking to GQ last year about the sketch, Sarah said 'I can't erase it. I can only be changed by it and move on.'
Asked if there was any push-back at the time, the stand-up revealed it she actually got the opposite reaction. 'I was praised for it! It made me famous!' she said, 'It was like, I'm playing a character, and I know this is wrong, so I can say it. I'm clearly liberal.'
'That was such liberal-bubble stuff, where I actually thought it was dealing with racism by using racism.
Asked if she's changed, she said: 'I don't get joy in that anymore. It makes me feel yucky. All I can say is that I'm not that person anymore.' 
During a visit to Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in 2015 she called it her most 'regrettable joke', but still defended the sketch as 'great' and said the criticism was 'taken out of context.'
It’s great, but there’s a still of me on Twitter in blackface and it’s totally out of context and I tweeted it when Twitter was new and the people who followed me watched that show and it was from that show,” Silverman concluded.
'Now it’s forever there and it looks … it’s totally racist out of context and I regret that.'

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