This sounds bogus to me. Who is bullying her? This sounds like an artificial “controversy” meant to bring publicity.
HARD pass on ANOTHER remake.
Oh so NOW its racist bullying. How about when a White actor plays a non White character?
That's why they picked her, isn't it? They did this deliberately to stir up a bunch of trouble. They certainly didn't pick her for her looks or for any desire to be true to the story.
if the errors of my life dropped that into my life... i’d commit suicide as well.
Produced by Bialystock and Bloom.
It’s at Duke of York’s Theatre so who cares ,LOL
They need to get Whoopi Goldberg and Zach Roloff as “Romeo and Juliet”....
You hit the nail on the head, FRiend.
Spot on.
How did the woke Cleopatra movie do? I refused to watch it.
They did this on purpose. Interracial cast. The ugliest Juliet they could find. (Sorry, not sorry) The marketing department uses their army of spam bots to post āracistā comments. Free publicity for the movie. They do not care about the feelings of the actress, who does not deserve the criticism. But they donāt care.
Youād have to find a fictional character thatās black and have a white actor post it. So far blacks are playing white fictional characters.
Ok just doing a shallow dive I can’t find any racist comments, just the REPORTS of racist comments.
Is this in the “Things That Never Happened” category? Because it kinda feels like it is.
The woman is not very attractive and the guy playing Romeo looks like a pure dweeb. Not a very likely star crossed couple. I will wonder if her family will be all black and if his family objects on those grounds.
All that said - big deal if Juliet is played by a woman with darker skin pigments? It takes place in Italy - you should see some of my relatives.
RE: Actress Faces Racist Bullying for Starring as Juliet in “Romeo & Juliet”
What if she starred as “Romeo” instead? :)
I have a suspicion the comments are troll accounts by the producers to get free exposure.
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).”
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.
They couldn’t find a lovely black actress? They didn’t even try to find one.
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.