Walter Emanuel Jones played Zack Taylor, the Black Ranger, and Thuy Trang played Trini Kwan, the Yellow Ranger ...

As the Yellow Ranger in the original series, Thuy Trang played the role of Trini Kwan, a fictional character from the Power Rangers franchise. Trini Kwan appeared in The Mighty Morphin Power ...

In the original series, the only Black character, Zack Taylor (Walter Emanuel Jones), and the only Asian character Trini Kwan (Thuy Trang), played the Black and Yellow Rangers, respectively.

"It was such a mistake," Oliver said. He described Zack as the character who "seemed to have the swagger of the group," while Trini was “the peaceful one, who tends to be the conscience of the group." ...

When the series was rebooted as a movie in 2017, the characters were recast. A Black actor, RJ Cyler, played the Blue Ranger while an Asian actor, Ludi Lin, played the Black Ranger. Latin pop star ...

But the show was criticized by viewers for how the Rangers' colors were assigned: Walter Emanuel Jones, who is Black, played Zack Taylor, the Black Ranger, and Thuy Trang, who was Vietnamese, played ...