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“Should Be Colour Blind” | BBC Drama About Hastings To Feature Diverse Actors
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- A new BBC drama about the Battle of Hastings will feature a diverse group of actors.
Historians question the application of 'colour-blind' casting to a period 'when Britain was at its least multicultural'.
Author and historian Martyn Whittock joins Talk’s Julia Hartley-Brewer to discuss this further.
Martyn says it would be just as wrong to cast a white European as Zulu King. "Most of us would say that's just not appropriate".
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The bbc fails to recognise how loathed and despised it is by the majority of the British population.
They don't care.
Vile organisation
Yes , so true, it's having a terrible affect on the morale of the UK. Our culture is under attack.
Yet they still turn that tv on
So stop watching the British bias corporation
Anglo Saxon & Norman were white The "Battle of Hatings" was a white punchup.
Yep Normans being Norsemen were definately not black 😂😂
Anglo Saxons were Danish/German, the Normans French.
And both sides enjoying ... er.....white privilege !
Battle of Hastings.
@@susannahhunt100 Norman’s weren’t all French they were Norsemen . Of Viking descent after they left Briton paid by the French to stop them killing and raping them .
My ancestors were there . How dare they shoehorn us out of our own history ?? Sick of it .
You're an American who claims to be from where your great grand parents immigrated from while hating on illegals aren't ya. This is not a history textbook it's a historical fiction drama. Sadly the average person can't figure out what is and is not fiction.
@@Ashley-wi4ng I'm a Yorkshireman living in Essex who grew up with the Army . Traced our ancestors back to William and Hastings . So my DNA was actually there . 😉
@thomasvarley380 congrats now why does that matter if its a historical fiction that exists to get people interested in your heritage? Adding color just means potentially more people who care about skin color as much as you who are not the same color as you may be inspired and interested in your history. How is that a bad thing, now if they put a documentary tag or claim it's 100% accurate there is a problem but if it's clearly a fiction why does it matter.
@thomasvarley380 also my bad assuming you heritage, I'm a first generation Canadian all my siblings and parents are from Barnard castle but I'm Canadian. And usually when someone says my ancestors and stuff like that they are as far from being British/scottish or irish as humanly possible while also thinking they are one and the same.
Europeans have no love and respect for their own countrymen and culture. Allowing in foreign invading cultures to take over the local ones in the name of globalism. Shameful. This is coming from an Asian.
ZULU would be HILARIOUS with BLACK AND WHITE actors on both sides🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂 Underated comment.
Aye. The 1960's movie remade the exact same way, but with the exceptions of Zulus played only by whites, and the British soldiers and settlers played 95 % by blacks.😂
To quote George Orwell..." Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past...."
No one controls the past - it is what it is and no one can change it - unless you have a time machine - or evil propoganda.
So it wasn't Rage Against The Machine ;-)
😂
That's a dirty lie about historians spread by futurists whose predictions keep coming up wrong.
They should rename that band "Rage In Support Of The Machine". Total sellouts.
I'm sick of it. Erasing our history and culture.
I agree
it's going beyond erasure..many black activists are calling foe genocide of white people...the ''useful idiots'' protesting are generally young white females with iq's matching their bra size ..the media of most western countries is stuffed full of deviates ,of all types who propagate this propaganda and until we remove them ,this will continue
Yes and just for the Expert's sake: Syrians and North Africans in the Roman period were not black (and the majority are not today). The number of black people in England in 1066 doesn't need qualification. It was 0!
You guys have, I would say 1 year, before your not even a white country at all. You all need to take your country back for your children. The US is rooting for you.
@@frankyyaggabot6222
They were not "Black". Otherwise, African Roman Emperor Septimius Severus would not have been surprised to have seen a Sub-Saharan person, and even perceive the blackness of their skin as a bad omen!
Every other person's history is important apart from ours 😢
Funny that. Isn't it? 😬
The reason I stoped watching Father Brown, suddenly a village in the Cotswold in the 1940s was 50% black and brown, so I just switched it off.
I love this show, so I watch it still though I know its ridiculous to see more than one African person in such village in UK before 70s.
I have said before , when African television show white Zulu warriors leaping up and down and brandishing spears in an historical production, I will accept the equivalent in productions by the BBC.
@@robin6797 You made that one up. Naughty.
Damn sir, you beat me to it!
In one african country that would be illegal.
Mmmm . can't see that happening !
Cant find whites able to jump and run like Zulus ! Natural selection you know ! Of course above the shoulder evolution wasnt the same.
Imagine the racist outbursts if a white man played the role of Nelson Mandela or Bob Marley.
Jimmy Savile would have made a great Mohamad though as always in character.
maybe someone should see how they feel
But that's different because white people are not underrepresented on TV
There was a real hoo haa when recent footage of Harry Enfield showed him in blackface as Nelson Mandela , Lenny Henry et al were demanding Harry get cancelled FOREVER (god forbid) , the footage is still available to view.
@@peterjermey7235 eeer, haven't seen any stats, but they are I bet, as the lack of diversity is already over compensated for.
I really hate that no one makes historically accurate period shows and movies now. There's nothing wrong with having an all-white cast to show what England looked like in the past. That's the whole point of a period drama. 🤦🏻♀️
They could ar least wear whiteface makeup.🤦
"Historically accurate..."
So we should deny that the Romans used troops from all over their empire in the UK over 2000 years ago. You think those African Centurions based in Cumbria just up and left when the Roman Empire collapsed?
@@fablewalls The battle is between the Norman-French and the Anglo Saxons, dumbass. There were no black people participating in that battle. Rome had nothing to do with it.
@@fablewalls The battle was between the Norman-French and the Anglo Saxons, idiot. There were no black people participating in that battle. Rome had nothing to do with it.
@@fablewalls That has not been denied at all. In fact, the historian confirmed it. However, the last of the Roman military withdrew in AD410. There were over six hundred years between the Roman withdrawal and Hastings, plenty of time for any residual black gene to have dissipated. (For example, footballers Cole Palmer, Kieran Tripper and Ross Barkley have a black parent or grandparent, yet in the space of only one or two generations they appear to be of white, Anglo-Saxon, descent).
You'd think Whites were a minority judging by the UK TV adverts 😡
Yeah. I live abroad. I was watching the rugby and thought it was from South Africa... turned out to be Channel 4: no one ever talks about under representation of white people in ads or on football teams...
Does make you wonder who the target audience is, and why
@@coinneachmacraibeart7891
I don't wonder anymore.
Looks like the plan to make people angry is working…
It is the same in the United States. The only white guys allowed in advertisements are the idiots or fools that have be be 'splained to or are creepy. Well, ... unless they are selling a truck.
"Colour blind" casting only ever works in one direction
Yep.
Apparently you can only be racist if you're White. I'm beginning to see more and more how we White people were able to accomplish what we did 😂
Or voice acting
Ffs never heard anything so disgusting, getting rid of Brittish heritage bit by bit
this is how you popularise the far right
@@shankarparikh938 im alt right but cannot stand far right or far left
well, we are getting rid of the BBC in a similar way, so, er TOUCHE ?
@@shankarparikh938 oh the myth
Ever notice any historical programme where the curators of any museum are 90% foreign or of foreign extraction, put the enemy in charge of your history and they can change it at their will. Just look at all the artifacts stolen from the London museums by their workers.
I just work on the assumption that all of the period dramas and documentaries worth watching have already been made.
Or, hopefully will be made after all this nonsense has stopped.
😂😂 The same people who say it's racist to say you don't see colour, say we need to be colour blind. 🙄 They always contradict everything they say! There's plenty of "diversity" in film and TV, historical dramas must be true to life or it's just fiction! Try making a Jack The Ripper movie and cast a black actor as Jack! Then they would be crying about how wrong that is!
Since JTR was never caught,none of us know really what colour he was,we assume he was white.
It’s like the Black actress that played, Ann Boleyn, ludicrous.
Yep and that was a flop
It's all karma for when John Wayne was cast as Genghis Khan!
no worse than Kenneth Williams playing an Indian
Black Ann Boleyn ?
Bonkers perhaps but it gets the gammon going!😂
@@ShanghaiRooster Yes, but in those days they didn't try to change the ethnicity of the character. It was white actors made up to look Asian etc.
Millions of British households no longer pay the bbc poll tax, why not join them?
Never had one.
29 years and counting, never had one, a thousand odd red letters from the BBC goons and never one visit either!
me too ..would not give them tuppence for it .. . .
I want to as I rarely watch it, but I'm too scared to. I know my luck, I have none!!
If it wasn't for the con that you need a tv license to watch any live TV....a lot more people would cancel their TV license .....
I’ve not been able to take period dramas seriously for a number of years now.
It is intellectually dishonest. It is condescending towards black people and it is counterproductive.
Controlled by lies
Norwegian Nelson Mandela frowns on that comment, Nigerian Joan of Arch agrees with Nelson.
It's hilarious.
The whole diversity thing is 💯 demented
George Orwell, 1984: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
Don't pay the BBC . Biased broadcasting company.
1984 One of the most important books ever written.
yep like the British Royals changing their German names
@@hassyg4083 That was for Political reasons agree though.
@@hassyg4083 Apples and Oranges
I lived in Japan for 8 years
This conversation wouldn’t even be conceivable.
We hate the facts of our history so much and it is worrying
Well, they've come for you as well. Look up the next Assassin's creed my friend.
I don't watch historical dramas where this happens.
I firmly believe people are sick of this woke shite. Sister Boniface, a black detective, not in that era. Will not watch it on principle along with lots of other rubbish T.V which has gone downhill since Midsummer Murders went woke.
Exactly - I prefer the old John Nettles Midsomer Murders anyway.
I was looking forward to Sister Boniface but did not watch it because of black bloke.
@@janewalker3921 Same here.
@@janewalker3921 Same here Jane, even though I thought they were trying to cash in on the popularity of Father Brown. I was still looking to watch it.
Trouble is father brown would have BAME characters in each episode in a Oxfordshire village set in the 50s im from a Oxfordshire village and we still dont have any BAME residents @@williamoates1754
Then the BBC wonder why so many of us have cancelled our tele licence!...
Or don't even have one (never paid never will) .
This all you got to complain about?
@@orsoncart1547 What's on your mind , C'mon get it off your shoulders, I'm a listener 😊
@@orsoncart1547 Yes, the degradation of your culture and history is a miniscule thing.
Some of us have never even stupid enough to pay it!
Samuel Jackson playing Churchill during WW2 next?
There's zero requitement for people to "see themselves on screen." That's a petty, narcissist issue for self centred people lacking confidence or unable to understand entertainmemt. Having said that, you should obviously have a broad representation if youre doing a modern day show set in a diverse city, but don't shoehorn ethnic minorities in to remote Scottish towns, or in to historical shows, if they weren't part of that.
Black people were not around. I'm fed up of changing our history
Well said
black people were always around
@traceyrhoden9808 I'm fed up of people who don't understand apostrophes!🤣
@@hassyg4083 no they weren't.. before the 1950s there would have been basically none in Britain. a few thousand, tops. and if you go back to the middle ages most people back then wouldn't even have known black people existed
they were round in africa...not British isles .. !
The sickening greed of the bbc and it's employees is truly nauseating.
Shame on anyone who pays for a TV Licence.
Not had one in years. Not gonna pay good money to watch a load of tripe.
The other problem is that the other colour is mostly black, not Indian or Chinese, and the proportion is far in excess of the position in the UK.
If you wish to put in fantasy, write fiction, set in another part of the world, rather than appropriating the history and culture of western societies.
STOP paying the BBC licence people. My goodness.
Will never ever pay for a TV licence again
So you will no longer have a sky or virgin box? Or watch any type of live tv on a device?
@@Slim_45 correct...since cancelling my tv licence two years ago...Never to date watched live TV....
I've not had a tv licence for over 3 years ...best thing I ever did ...it's total crap anyway...
@@Slim_45 For TV shows, I'd rather pay pirates (which I've done before) than any corporation or government.
@@Slim_45Yep. Cancelled mine three years ago. Fuck the bbc
I don't normally watch period dramas but Wolf Hall (set in the reign of Henry VIII) was one of the best TV series I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the new series filming now has (so I've read) gone down exactly this road of diverse casting. Not of the main figures, fortunately, because the actors need to be the same as before: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis etc. But I'll bet that a lot of the periperhal cast are now "diverse". If anyone here hasn't seen the Critical Drinker's videos where he talks about THE MESSAGE forced down our throats in films and TV, go and watch them. Genuinely hilarious - they should be required viewing for anyone working at the BBC.
As a direct descendant of William the Conqueror, I now identify as an African American 👍🏾
Thank you,Julia - us Brits are spending a disproportionate amount of time these days fighting enemies who are living amongst us.
Exactly! Those who obsess about colour and race claiming they are not seeing colour! Pure propaganda!
I personally find the credibility of any film/show I watch evaporate immediately as soon as I see some attempt at casting along studio inclusivity policy grounds. Realism used to be something films, especially war films, strived for, but that goal is no longer pursued. Not just because of corporate policy but also because studios/networks get government rebates and funding etc for having diverse cast regardless of fake and unbelievable their films now look..
Um? So what's with the needleworkers of the bayeux Tapestry (created soon sfter William's coronation) Did they have a shortage of black thread? Ridiculous
There is an effort to mislead the young and ignorant, with their short attention spans they just see headlines and blindly accept. It's happening in books, museums etc., and is a disgrace, an insult to our heritage which has to be stopped.
It's our history and culture, not theirs
It's all our history and culture. Who are they?
@@susannahhunt100 All the ethnic population, go back only a few decades and you'll find that their history and culture is from an entirely different continent.
@@draper360ifyaren't White people 'ethnic' too?
Notice how they come to ours and expect us to bend to their madness.
Exactly this is ACTUAL cultural appropriation. But it's ok because it's our culture that's being stolen but God help a white girl that wears her hair in braids
Only in this country or time would this even be a discussion. Country makes me sick.
They're getting you used to the lie that Britain has "always been diverse".
The BBC makes itself more ridiculous by the day.
Multi cultural Britain a dream of Blair and his acolytes results in a country in turmoil
The chickens are coming home to roost. Muslims for instance, are electing MPs now to serve their needs alone. who would have thought that would happen! A democratically elected white woman (Jess Phillips) was subjected to intimidation by muslims simply for beating their candidate. Expect more of this.Diversity is our strength, my arse.
the small hats, you fall way way short
@@matthewcresswell-ff5iw Yeah don't see them committing 99% of terrorist attacks in Europe, like radical Islam.
same vermin
Multi Cultural Britain was here well before 1997
I've been studying the Anglo Saxon period for the best part of 25 years. The only black things back then were charred wood and some flags!
I won't be watching this. I normally lap up any and every screen depiction of this period. But i can't suspend my knowledge for the sake of politics! The BBC should NOT be allowed to corrupt our history. Why is 'cultural appropriation' ok for anyone else but white people? This will be total and utter crap!
I hope in the future things go back to normal, and we can put them through the same as they bloody well have us!!
Historical dramas are all about authenticity, which is achieved through accuracy & attention to detail.
Dear me. We have no records of black or Asian people for example historically speaking in our UK history. I refuse to watch Bridgeton! Worth mentioning is Cleopatra. SHE WAS NOT BLACK! Olive skinned, yes. Riddiculous and historically incorrect!
Cleopatra was Egyptian 🇪🇬
@@marianlonge3060 Cleopatra was not native 'Egyptian' either she was from the ruling Greek Ptolemies. They were descendants of the Greek general Ptolemy.
There were some. Elizabeth I is said to have complained about the number of 'blackamoors' in London.
@@marianlonge3060 Of pure Greek descent.
@@ShanghaiRooster, yep, I think there were three...three too many for Queen Bess.
BBC - British Bullshit Comedy
State tv.
The comedy bit is more sad and pathetic than it is funny 😂
Bringing British communism.
Soon to be renamed the Black Broadcasting Corporation.
The worst thing about this, is, that those not up on their history will likely take what they see on screen as an accurate depiction of the racial mix present at the Battle of Hastings and the England of 1066 in general.
I'm sure that this is intentional.
One of the problems with diversity picks is that they are often selected ONLY because of their race, and may be wrong for the part for other reasons, like lack of acting ability for instance or simply not being right for the part. That has happened a lot in BBC dramas. A prime example was Freema Agyema, who was fine in Doctor Who but terrible in Little Dorrit. Totally wrong for the part, their for one reason only.
This is an insult to us the blood british, our ancestors are white, ffs
We all descend from Africans as you probably know.
just that the best left and improved through natural selection. To survive in the north , you need to be smarter than in an environment were food was plentyfull, you just had to be able to outrun predators. Level of civilisation, IQ fistribution.... prove it. A nice, sunny climate change more than just the skin.
Yes, sure 🤣
I agree with the only way to boycott the show
@@cacambo589 we are far seperated from our base ancestors,,, look at how much we have evolved compared to sub saharen africans...
Funny no black actors say I can't play that role
No shame no morals and no integrity ,so sad
There was an actress who turned down the Warrior king because she knew the hero's were actually evil.
Why should they?
@@susannahhunt100Self respect? Not being the token black guy? Not taking the obvious diversity hire position?
@AndPigsCanFly-ku6ku "Blackballed?" Surely you mean "multicolourballed?" 🤣
They only say this for European history -- if it's anyone else's history it's cultural appropriation or White-washing, and is collectively understood to be a bad thing. This is why the recent Mulan remake was not diverse, when every historical European setting is.
I looked very carefuly but failed to see not one single Inuit Nunangat represented .
Did you know the Vikings arrived in Greenland _before_ the Innuit. Look it up. Somehow the Innuit are still oppressed indigenous people. But it's not racism or anything
@@brick6347 Is it not .
Look we know Winston the Conqueror and his lesbian army defeated Gay King Harold in 1066 routing his Zulu regiment and Baza bachi dancing boys.
The country has always been multicultural as will be explained when Black History Month rolls around again.
How ridiculous ..there was not one african in Britain at that time . . .!!!!
There actually was
@@qasimhussain3708have you evidence.
@@albert21able have you any to the contrary?
@@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361 there might have been about 8….
@@albert21able common sense tells me there was at least a few, granted not many obviously…… but the Roman Empire was at its largest with a African and Middle Eastern population making it such …. Use your brain and tell me white men didn’t find non white women attractive .. and that they never had relations or children!!!!! The Bauer tapas tertiary the woven story from 1066 is obviously a genuine depiction of the scene and they was most definitely all white but I’m saying common sense says there was a few mixed race heritage people there. I don’t know the cast and if it’s more than one or two non white in there it would be stupid I agree
My family history records show two ancestors fought at the beach at Hastings. A father and son team brawled so well that the son was given to marry a pretty young cousin of the conqueror. 2k years later and they get portrayed by Ubungu and Abdul /facepalm
Not fought on a beach. Any actual truth in your tale?
@@alanbeaumont4848 Ha, i guess you are technically correct, it was fought a few miles from the beach landings, after all who wants to fight on sand or have their back to the sea. British armies were busy with other troubles at the far end of the country, so us Normans had chance to march a few miles into a good position. Not sure if there were any piquets or skirmishing actually on the beach, i don't think so, maybe a tiny handful of local scouts were killed. As far as my family story, i think it 's true as it's no fairy-tale, the records go on to describe how the family lost everything some century later backing the wrong successor, normally in fictional accounts, things turn out a lot sweeter and neater.
@@alanbeaumont4848 Not sure how truly interested you are in the history, but this is my real surname, you can look it up yourself. My family crest has the Gurnet fish on it, which is a fish that can use its fins to walk.
No historical drama then. Which makes it a fantasy-fiction. Simple fact.
Why not put a warning on the screen before the program starts. I see such warnings in many programs, nudity, smoking violence etc.
So why not 'the actors in this film may not represent the ethnicity of the actual participants in this historical drama.'
Excellent idea.
Then we can all SWITCH OFF
I don't think it would matter. Bridgerton, which is so obviously not historically correct, has convinced a large number of people that Queen Charlotte truly was black after all.
@@Anwell100it's bizarre. How do they explain her white children?
If there are any non ethic people in historical dramas, I will not watch or entertain it!
How about Hitler played by a black actor! I would watch it
💯
@@marcellogenesi6390 interesting concept!
@@marcellogenesi6390 Mein Hustle
The BBC must have a "People of colour placement team" to make sure that every programme is covered.The time & money spent on this excercise must be astronomicle.
I'm still waiting for a film about mandela featuring a white person
Bring it on.
The more people that ditch their TV licence over the BBC's out of control wokery, the better.
DeFUND...the bbc...now...
It's about correctly representing the character in question. You wouldn't have a cockney playing Einstein, A German playing Martin Luther King. When watching a particular film or documentry we want to see a close account of the events. It's PC gone too far into the absurd.
Let's have Jackie Chan play Ghandi or Be proud of who you are but don't be something you're not. Where does all this end. A very young actor playing an old person?
There is 99.999999% chance that there was zero percentage black or brown people involved in that battle
Wrong.
There is a 100% chance.
@@davidbrown5411 What if they self-identified as black? doesn't that count?
@@philldavies7940 Well there WAS a lot of death by bladed weapon in 1066 so you may be right. 🤣
Joan of Arc was black at the end…
@@nigelholder5514 🤣
Can you imagine a black child ( the adults know, or should know it's bullshit) being disillusioned when finding out that stuff like this is all lies. They will feel at first stupid for believing it - wonder who they will blame?
Maybe it'll make them realise there's probably more lies they've been told by the bbc.
History is history people were mainly white years ago. It looks ridiculous when they put coloured people in these roles.
British people I think you mean... but I suspect there wasn't a single non-white person on the British Isles in 1066.
At least the Costner Robin Hood movie had a good explanation on why Robin was accompanied by Azzem, a Muslim, all the way to England. And at least there is evidence that Richard I actually brought back Muslim mercenaries from the Holy Land. But this is insane. I can't imagine Harold Godwinson, Harald Hardrada, and William the Conqueror with racially diverse armies.
And i also can't believe England still pays the BBC a television license fee. Screw that.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland pay for the BBC licence also.
@@brianferris8668 that's even worse. That shows how much England has the other members of the UK by the bollocks.
Britain has areas of multi racial but we are not multicultural , we are all in a British culture , little bit of food and music from somewhere else doesn’t mean you are not living in a British culture
i'm 50 i remember when the UK was overwhelmingly white, it was'nt that long ago and everything was better
96% white at the 1991 census.
Edit : sorry 94.6%
Yes
Ask anyone over 50, who doesn't have dementia!
😂 u sad fool I am 57 I remember south London full of black people small amounts of white people & it was perfect until the white people started to move in 😂
I remember it also!
@@davidrenton earlier I posted some data from the 1991 Census - the moderators at Talk seem to have deleted it.
They should make a drama about the atlantic slave trade with the slaves cast by Chinese actors and the slave traders played by black actors.
Should make one about the Barbary slave trade, see how that lands😂
@basic_unit All were, Europeans just turned up and swiped the plastic.
Now I'd watch that, and revel in the uproar it causes afterwards ! Pass me the popcorn please. 😂
@basic_unitAbsolutely right! Black tribal leaders sold their own people to slave traders.
The slave traders were black.
If historical accuracy is unimportant, William the Conqueror could be played by a black woman talking Spanish and driving a Land Rover.
I m sick of random trolls on internet trying to tell me - a person interested in European archeology and mythology for 25 years ! - that vikings from Ireland were black, that Celtic queen Boudika was African, that Vandals - Germanic peoples from Denmark who in 1th century have settled on the west of today Poland - were black, that Septimus Severus - Roman ceasar from 2d century was from central Africa (no, he was apparently half-Berber from north Africa), that Cleopatra VII was black - while she was Greek, and that Lausatians - a Slavic tribe with whose region (in Germany) my region in Poland is actualy bordering ! and whose language I can hear to this day in some villages on the border of Germany and Poland - were black ! I m so sick of it. We all know who is doing it, the owners of the global medias are doing it, but if we dare to speak the truth we would be called some kind of -ism and we all know it.
Don't support this crap!
Don't buy a TV licence.
Don't stream it.
Don't buy the Blu-ray.
Write letters of protest to the BBC and condemn their falsifications of British history. This is serious!
"Quick reminder there is no upper limit to diversity. You'll just be endlessly told things are too white until you wake up one day to something between Mogadishu and Karachi"
~ Andrew Joyce, Occidental Observer
The fact that they are even discussing this is insane.
As a man of colour I find this woke idea absolutely ridiculous and actually racist. Imagine that they will cast Denzel Washington to play Winston Churchill. I would be offended by that stupidity.
There are huge numbers of people who work in the costumes, wigs, scenery and props making sure that everything is as close as it can be to accurate. Painstaking effort to make sure the wall covererings are correct for the decade, and that the wigs are made in the right style. We even have shoe specialists who know buckles are correct and not laces, and the makeup people spend a long time making sure the makeup that is now known to be unhealthy is replaced with something safe but has the same texture and application, and then we mess it all up with unrealistic casting - making all the effort in other areas pointless.
sack them all, evidently historical accuracy isn't necessary, just dress the actors in jeans and t-shirts. Henry VIII would look good in a pair of Levi 501' s, Niki trainers topped by a stylish peaky blinders hat.
That's a really great point, thank you.
Another programme l and thousands of other will never watch. Typical BBC shite!
100% right. 👍👍
So in New Zealand, when Kupe arrived around the same time, would the BBC then cast Europeans, Asians, Africans, North Americans in the cast?
Perhaps they could do a historical drama about the Moorish occupation of Lundy in 1627? The cast could be very diverse?
I love history as it was, shouldn’t be changed and if a programme isn’t accurate, I’m not interested.
In the words of Nigel Farage 'Boring Boring'. Turn the telly off.
Im SICK of being labelled as racist when you point obvious things like this
Stratford festival in Ontario has attempted the color blind route. Well the other than white color blind. Unfortunately seeing black actors playing characters in Private Lives or On The Importance Of Being Earnest. Just didn’t work for me and I stopped going. We just can’t imagine black people as upperclass or aristocrats in those British periods. Similarly, having Stallone play Mohammed Ali wouldn’t work for me either.
It’s a demonstration of the hypocrisy of the woke where they decry a white actor playing a role of any minority as exemplified by Tom Hanks regretting his role in Philadelphia Story.
It’s the same illogical ridiculousness as cultural appropriation?
Why no Chinese or Japanese, the people Lenny Henry used to make racist humour out off
Not to mention that travesty of a film True Identity, where he used "white face". Hypocrisy thy name is the left.
He's another who the native British indulged and who's a hater. Took advantage of good nature then stabbed us in the back. Simpleton humour who thought he was another Lawrence Olivier. When it didn't come off blamed racism. Sorry pal most people in Shakespeare's time were white.
Yeah but lenny Henry is black and black people cant be racist
@@brianmcfarlane9976 lenmyhenry is black black people camt be racist
@@robin6797 I remember well what a twat
Cobblers, there was no sub saharan Africans at the battle of Hastings 😢
Do the arrive in Hastings by rubber dinghy?
You only have to look at the tapestries from that time. They were all white. Bet they'd have coloured one or two in if it were possible. Notice too how when talking of historical events they say 'we'. When it suits them they pretend it's all of us.
No, but the Roman's Nubian Dinghy Fleet was just off Bexhill, just incase Backup was needed at KFC at Lunchbreak.
Some years ago I've started to watch a new "Beowulf" TV show based on the story from 5-6th century, and from famous English poem from 10th century. So I was very interested in a new adaptation of it, esp as I've seen all 5 of those previous not-very-well adaptations :D First scene - the hero returns to his village on horsback. Second scene - the hero enters the gate and meets... an Indian teenage girl working as a blacksmith... in a vikings village of 6th century. Right. That was the end of my watching the show :D
I watched a Small Light about Anne Frank on Disney the other day and was worried for a moment they were going to cast her on the basis of diversity. Luckily sense prevailed.
Most TV adverts now feature mixed race Families, this doesn’t reflect our society.
And all the white men are 'stupid' unlike the blacks or females.
"Put a black man on the sofa of a white family" they don't do it the other way around - they are right in one way - no black family will have a white on their sofa - and we wouldn't want to be there either - I don't sit with drug dealers or pimps.
Apparently lynx is only for black people now too. Boycott.
@@kenhardy8405 It does actually
@@susannahhunt100 Bollocks.
The first step in erasing a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its art and rewrite its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
It’s a cruel world.
And the Zionists have been doing this through their control of the media,and what our kids are taught at school,have been since end of WW2.
Didn't black people build Stonehenge? I seem to remember it being in the news.
So is the BBC going to do a drama of the Last Emperor of China, lead role of Pu Yi played by David Tennent, with Scottish accent. Won't happen, why??? Because it's not factual, but when did the modern BBC bother with this. People aren't stupid
Of course not David Tennant that would be silly. They'll use a black actor for that too.
I am waiting for a Chinese actor to portray Martin Luther King in a movie
Diversity is a one-way street unfortunately
My thoughts exactly
I identify as Asian, so I'll do it, with a Welsh accent
Dev Patel as Malcolm X.
" Jesli chcesz znać przyszłość wyobraź sobie bucior przyciskający do ziemi ludzką twarz. Już na zawsze".
G. Orwell.
All the Zulu, Ninja and Eskimo Normans at the Battle of Hastings were included in the Bay-oo tapestry. But the colours must have faded. And their descendents were lost during the black death. Hence the name.
Can't wait for the remake of Tarzan (black) and dazzlingly white people playing indigenous Africans.
I'm all in favour of lots of dazzingly white people in every production.
😂 I think a lot of people are waiting for that one!😂😂
or a white bob marley
@@123-NORTH-STREETwhy not? Wasn't he half white ..so no one could complain
@@jenster29 his dad but he never talk about him
Has this country gone insane??????¿?
Yes
I don't know if the country has gone mad , but the. BBC went round the bend many years ago. I, for one cannot watch any of their lousy output. They even managed to wreck University Challenge,with an odious new presenter.