Sexy Historical Romance Series ‘Bridgerton’ Is A Swoon-Worthy If Cliched Delight

The Federalist ^ | December 31, 2020 | Paulina Enck

[dsc]

“Have nothing against actors of one ethnicity playing characters of another”

Where it amounts to the rewriting of history, I oppose it.

What would leftwads say if someone cast a Caucasian to play Nat Turner?

[alexander_busek]

Where it amounts to the rewriting of history, I oppose it.Non-Jew playing "Shylock," non-Black playing "Othello," Latino playing "Hamlet," Whites playing all the parts in G&S's "The Mikado" - I have no objections.

In-your-face casting of Blacks such that the British royals of the Regency Era look like a Tarzan movie - fail.

What I'd like to know: Does the film acknowledge it "in-universe?"

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

The author of the series Julia Quinn has praised the casting decision, telling People magazine that “it's incredibly important”. She also explained that the show’s inclusion of Queen Charlotte - a real historical figure believed to have had “significant African ancestry” - was a powerful move that could help reimagine what the Regency period could have looked like.

Wikipedia:

The 17-year-old Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz appealed to him as a prospective consort partly because she had been brought up in an insignificant north German duchy [...]

Yeah, and we all know how insignificant north German duchies were just crawling with African immigrants in the early 18th Century!

Regards,

[visualops]

The show had to conform to diversity quotas, so they took a very enjoyable but shallow series of somewhat steamy Regency romances and basically put them in another universe. From what I’ve heard about this show in Regency romance facebook groups, I’d have to pretend I never read the original books. Which is a shame because the first story is funny and touching. What is stupid really, is that they *could* have written a believable historical story, with black and/or multiethnic people, but would have to put it in France before The Terror.

[C19fan]

Bit disappointed a so called conservative webzine is approving of Bonkerton. In my mind this revisionist crap is another Woke assault on our cherished cultural traditions.

[Wuli]

The hypocrisy of so many of today’s movie makers is evident in this Netflix melodrama. While it is currently considered bad and an act of cultural appropriation when /if a “white” person is cast in a role that history suggests was really a “black” person, but the same cast of characters that demand all of that have no problem with a “black” person in a role that history suggests was occupied by a “white” person.

Someone being politically correct and being a hypocrite are synonymous today.

[dsc]

“What I’d like to know: Does the film acknowledge it “in-universe?”

I only watched a part of the first episode, in which it was not acknowledged, so I can’t answer your question.

[dfwgator]

Can the faggotry be far behind?