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They said she had makeup that was like grease paint that was melting off her face.

Fitting for a portrayal pair of Broadway superstars, the series has grease paint running through its DNA.

The character he performed – a limping, shuffling old black field-hand in jet black grease paint made from burnt cork – would ossify as the archetypal blackface minstrel.

It reduces identity to a pot of grease paint, to a joke.

The origins of blackface date to 19th-century “minstrel” shows in which white performers covered their faces in black grease paint to caricature slaves.