"It Was Such A Mistake": Power Rangers Writer Addresses Casting Black & Asian Actors As The Black & Yellow Rangers

Now, he says of the original casting decision:

“It was such a mistake.”

Oliver also points out that “Thuy was not our original Yellow Ranger.”

Thuy was then edited into the already-shot pilot.

I’m Black, and I play the Black Ranger go figure."

ThePower Rangerslived on in the various spinoffs, continuations, and one-off adventures in the years that followed.

Trang died in a car crash in 2001, while Richie actor Maurice Mendoza died by suicide in 2013.

Green Ranger Jason David Frank also died by suicide in 2022.

Red Ranger actor Ricardo Medina Jr. pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the murder of Joshua Sutter in 2017.

Going back to revisit the show now with this new knowledge could certainly affect the viewing experience.

Source: Investigation Discovery (viaEW)

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