To be historically accurate the cast would probably all need to be much shorter than people of today, and they would need to speak old English which we would not understand. They would probably need to be younger, since people had short lives back then. But they didn't do any of that. They cast it with a diverse group of actors from Britain. Seems entirely appropriate.
Casting people who are the wrong ethnicity in a historical drama isn’t even trying. I’m more than willing to accept an actor who is a few inches taller than the average Englishman in 1066. I simply won’t accept the historically incorrect ethnicity. It just insults my intelligence.
I’ll allow for some variance. The musical Hamilton cast black actors in historical rolls that were white. But that sure wasn’t really meant to be taken seriously. It was a hip-hop musical. I just didn’t matter that much. But a historical drama is different.
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They were the main ones going to other places (North America, Caribbean, South America, Africa, India and Australia) claiming the land and people for themselves colonizing them and trying to make them subjects of their so called crown.
the Anglo Saxons were the original immigrant invaders of Britain. the ironic thing is the same racists who are foaming at the mouth about this would have no problem with French actors playing any of these roles as long as they were white even though it was the French that conquered the Anglo Saxons.
To be historically accurate the cast would probably all need to be much shorter than people of today, and they would need to speak old English which we would not understand. They would probably need to be younger, since people had short lives back then. But they didn't do any of that. They cast it with a diverse group of actors from Britain. Seems entirely appropriate.
Casting people who are the wrong ethnicity in a historical drama isn’t even trying. I’m more than willing to accept an actor who is a few inches taller than the average Englishman in 1066. I simply won’t accept the historically incorrect ethnicity. It just insults my intelligence.
I’ll allow for some variance. The musical Hamilton cast black actors in historical rolls that were white. But that sure wasn’t really meant to be taken seriously. It was a hip-hop musical. I just didn’t matter that much. But a historical drama is different.
So Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar is not right? Is Laurence Olivier playing a moor ok?
To be historically accurate the cast would probably all need to be much shorter than people of today, and they would need to speak old English which we would not understand. They would probably need to be younger, since people had short lives back then. But they didn't do any of that. They cast it with a diverse group of actors from Britain. Seems entirely appropriate.
Casting people who are the wrong ethnicity in a historical drama isn’t even trying. I’m more than willing to accept an actor who is a few inches taller than the average Englishman in 1066. I simply won’t accept the historically incorrect ethnicity. It just insults my intelligence.
I’ll allow for some variance. The musical Hamilton cast black actors in historical rolls that were white. But that sure wasn’t really meant to be taken seriously. It was a hip-hop musical. I just didn’t matter that much. But a historical drama is different.
Rather than insulting your intelligence, it's hoping that you are intelligent enough to look past the color of the actors skin and enjoy the storytelling.
You're willing to accept some historical inaccuracy but don't seem to have a definite limit. That's simply your taste and that's fine.
Casting people who are the wrong ethnicity in a historical drama isn’t even trying. I’m more than willing to accept an actor who is a few inches taller than the average Englishman in 1066. I simply won’t accept the historically incorrect ethnicity. It just insults my intelligence.
I’ll allow for some variance. The musical Hamilton cast black actors in historical rolls that were white. But that sure wasn’t really meant to be taken seriously. It was a hip-hop musical. I just didn’t matter that much. But a historical drama is different.
Rather than insulting your intelligence, it's hoping that you are intelligent enough to look past the color of the actors skin and enjoy the storytelling.
You're willing to accept some historical inaccuracy but don't seem to have a definite limit. That's simply your taste and that's fine.
I honestly can't believe anyone is libtarded enough to defend this.
You guys are really revealing just how much propaganda and newspeak you'll go along with, and it's not a good look.