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Actress Faces Racist Bullying for Starring as Juliet in "Romeo & Juliet"
BET ^ | 4/8/24

Posted on 04/08/2024 9:23:28 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, starring alongside Tom Holland in "Romeo & Juliet," prompts The Jamie Lloyd Company to condemn racism and harassment in the industry.

Actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers will play Juliet in the London West End production of "Romeo & Juliet." Because Rivers is the leading lady, she’s been the target of ongoing racist online bullying. This role as Juliet is Amewudah-Rivers’ West End debut, and what a warm welcome. Amewudah-Rivers is starring alongside “Spider-Man” leading man Tom Holland as Romeo.

The Jamie Lloyd Company released a statement: "Following the announcement of our Romeo & Juliet cast, there has been a barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company. This must stop. We are working with a remarkable group of artists. We insist that they are free to create work without facing online harassment."

The company continued, "We will continue to support and protect everyone in our company at all costs. Any abuse will not be tolerated and will be reported. Bullying and harassment have no place online, in our industry or in our wider communities."

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: amewudahrivers; bet; blackwashing; romeoandjemima; romeoandjuliet; thatsracist; wokewhining
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To: Puppage

Hark, what light through yonder camera breaks when it takes your photo!


61 posted on 04/08/2024 10:22:25 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
"Romeo and Juliet" with Buckwheat as Juliet.

Buckwheat broke the glass ceiling. He did it with a baseball, and all the kids learned a good lesson, okie dokie.

62 posted on 04/08/2024 10:26:53 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: heartwood

“But that means any race can play Othello in play or opera...”

What are your plans for the part where Othello is described as black?


63 posted on 04/08/2024 10:32:29 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Impala64ssa

RE: Actress Faces Racist Bullying for Starring as Juliet in “Romeo & Juliet”

What if she starred as “Romeo” instead? :)


64 posted on 04/08/2024 10:33:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Impala64ssa

I have a suspicion the comments are troll accounts by the producers to get free exposure.


65 posted on 04/08/2024 10:33:52 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: FLT-bird

More White men have played Othello than Black; but through most of that history, nobody cared.


66 posted on 04/08/2024 10:34:02 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Impala64ssa

What will happen with descriptions:

“the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars” (II,ii,20), or “yet so fair” and “crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks” (V,iii,95).”


67 posted on 04/08/2024 10:36:02 AM PDT by odawg
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To: GOPJ

“Our subs stop nuclear attacks because they can retaliate... To turn this special task over to “people in charge based on sexual kink or color” is insane. Or intentional...

41 posted on 4/8/2024, 9:53:35 AM by GOPJ”

Even Admiral Rickover kept and an eye and ear open to monitor anything done to his subs.

He had zero tolerance for those who didn’t follow procedure while building, repair or maintaining his subs.


68 posted on 04/08/2024 10:36:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: T.B. Yoits

Oh, just perfect!


69 posted on 04/08/2024 10:44:16 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: mewzilla
Both are a little long in the tooth for the roles.

Olivia Hussey was really perfect for this role back in 1968. She was young, and had that innocence about her that really fit the role. Plus, quite attractive.

70 posted on 04/08/2024 10:47:43 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Impala64ssa

Interesting.

They chose a sub saharan black woman who is not considered particularlly attractive within her own sub sahara cohort.

Sort. Of like casting Lena Dunham or Barbara Streisand as juliiet.


71 posted on 04/08/2024 10:48:40 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: HamiltonJay
Wouldn’t this be cultural appropriation?

Yes, yes it would. However, what do I know, I'm just some old white lady.

72 posted on 04/08/2024 10:48:52 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: MeanWestTexan

Do The Color Purple with an all-white cast, purely for the purpose of showing tolerance for diversity.


73 posted on 04/08/2024 10:48:54 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: Mr Rogers
And there is NOTHING racists about not wanting to see blacks playing whites in a time when all the Europeans were white!

LOL! I have to say that this isn't the worst I've seen on this type of thing. The BBC (I think, it was a British program) had an Anne Boelyn program that had Anne, and Henry VIII as black. I have seen photos of the oil paintings of these two people, and, they were NOT black!

74 posted on 04/08/2024 10:52:55 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Impala64ssa

They couldn’t find a lovely black actress? They didn’t even try to find one.


75 posted on 04/08/2024 10:55:54 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: odawg
“But that means any race can play Othello in play or opera...”

Didn't Lawrence Olivier already do that. I am so old, I know who he is and I do believe he played Othello.

76 posted on 04/08/2024 10:57:21 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: LibertarianLiz

Okay, I am responding to myself; but, Olivier did play Othello in “blackface” in a 1965 production.


77 posted on 04/08/2024 11:05:52 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Jamestown1630
More White men have played Othello than Black; but through most of that history, nobody cared.

True! And I have no problem with that. They call it "acting" after all. But others have made a BIG deal out of straight actors playing gay characters, White actors playing non White characters, etc etc. Yet I hear nothing when a Black character appears in a story that takes place in medieval England or Black Vikings or a Black actor playing Achilles in a version of the Iliad I saw. One set of rules for everybody. That's only fair.

78 posted on 04/08/2024 11:10:46 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

‘Fair’ isn’t part of the narrative.


79 posted on 04/08/2024 11:13:47 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DPMD

Hair with an all Jewish cast. It’s not like I don’t have a fro.


80 posted on 04/08/2024 11:14:43 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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