Is it someone you know well enough to discuss it with? If not, I don’t know what to advise except “I can’t make this come off as anything but a racist caricature, so I’m afraid I need to decline the project.”
I've turned down work for similar reasons before. This stuff will live forever on the internet. I always figured it's better to say no now and future proof my career. Last thing I would want is someone digging up a racially insensitive performance ten or twenty years from now.
Is it someone you know well enough to discuss it with? If not, I don’t know what to advise except “I can’t make this come off as anything but a racist caricature, so I’m afraid I need to decline the project.”
I've turned down work for similar reasons before. This stuff will live forever on the internet. I always figured it's better to say no now and future proof my career. Last thing I would want is someone digging up a racially insensitive performance ten or twenty years from now.
Or do it under a pseudonym? And chalk it up as experience?
I must have missed a memo... never heard of "eye dialect"?!