I’ve read that UK movie & TV series can’t get funding unless there are roles for minority actors\actresses. Making sense is irrelevant. There’s a Georgian England costume drama series with black actors\actresses having roles of Lords\Ladies, etc. There’s a UK TV series on Anne Bolyen and she’s black. Visually these series just look ridiculous! There’s another UK series about 1950s\1960s Belfast, blue collar lower class Belfast and its well populated with all sorts of minorities. Again not even remotely historically accurate in the numbers presented. History is being rewritten to include people who weren’t there, i think primarily because it’s cheaper easier to do then write actual new plausible material. Of course the intellectual fraud and laziness is being disguised as “woke”. How fraud and lies helps these minorities escapes me.
They should actually use whiteface.
There was a recent movie about Churchill, which has a scene with him riding the bus during WWII (which never happened), but they made a point to show a black couple on the bus.
It's Amazon Prime that is forcing this, dictating a policy that everyone involved in any Amazon Prime film must abide by a rule that 40% of the entire filmmaking staff must be BIPOC/LGBTQ+ or whatever.
And everyone else is following suit.
This makes it next to impossible to make, say, a WWII film, unless you drop in a handful of totally unbelievable minority roles.
Today I just saw the new movie, “Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris,” set in 1950s London and Paris, about a British maid who sets off to buy a fancy dress.
I’m supposed to believe about half of her London friends and half of the models at House of Dior back then were black. Okaaay…