I'm not sure I could outrun him...er..."her"! Pity poor Romeo! No wonder he kills himself!
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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I doubt she’s really being bullied or racially attacked. You’d have to be a moron to do that. Shakespeare took the Italian story and wrote an English play that was performed by English actors, until it was translated into various other languages and performed by other casts. Bernstein, Sondheim and Company turned it into a love story between a Puerto Rican girl and a white boy (Polish?).
Since it’s about lovers from two warring houses or families or backgrounds, a white/black mix shouldn’t be any problem. Nobody really thinks it’s a historical representation of what life in Renaissance Verona or Elizabethan England was really like. The play is bigger and different from that. It’s not like they’re making Anne Boleyn black in a supposed historical drama. It’s not like non-Italian and non-British actors haven’t been putting on the play for years and years.
You might have a point if it were a film that went to great lengths to create the historical city of Verona. But it’s a play. You aren’t going there to see a recreation of Renaissance Italy. You’re going there to see Shakespeare. Resetting Shakespeare in different times and places and recasting it with actors of different backgrounds has been standard for years. Take it up with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio.
What are your plans for the part where Othello is described as black?
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Make up, or imagination.
Made by the “Zyklon Bee” film studios? I wonder how many will get the cringeworthy historical reference.
Denzel Washington played Macbeth some years ago. I believe he has had the starring roles in other Shakespeare plays.
Never saw any of them, so don’t exactly know how that was presented since English and Scottish kings descended from royal blood lines.
LMAO!!!!
Looks suspiciously like Chris Tucker.
LOL!!Bump.
LOL!! If she said Enterprise, Enterprise, wherefore art thou? I would say “Feets don’t fail me now.”
LOL!!! Bump. This thread is too much fun!
LOL!!!
Oh I know. I just enjoy confronting them with their rank hypocrisy at all times.
In Shakespeare’s day, the role was played by a man.
Oogabooga, Romy!
I have been misinformed. From the commentary I read elsewhere, I thought it was a movie. In a movie it is silly, in a play, it doesn't really make any difference.
One might wonder how her family found its way to fair Verona.
It’s way past time that we put pasty white people into movies about African and South American tribes isn’t it?
“If she said Enterprise, Enterprise, wherefore art thou? I would say “Feets don’t fail me now.”
Maybe try ducking and replying, in a fake voice, “He went thataway!”
I'm not sure I could outrun him...er..."her"! Pity poor Romeo! No wonder he kills himself!
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