Posted on 09/01/2025 6:49:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Anglo-Saxons will be played by a diverse cast in a new BBC historical drama about the Battle of Hastings.
The eight-part series King and Conqueror will tell the story of Harold and William’s epoch-defining struggle for the throne of England in 1066.
Some Anglo-Saxon characters, including a real 11th-century leader, will be played by a diverse set of actors.
Jason Forbes and Elander Moore have joined the cast of the drama which boasts James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in starring roles.
Adding diversity to a high medieval period setting follows the BBC’s “colour-blind” casting of non-white stars as Tudor courtiers in another upcoming historical drama, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.
King and Conqueror is a CBS Studios co-production series acquired by the BBC.
When announced in 2023, CBS Studios executive Lindsey Martin said the scripts would offer “a bold and fresh take on a story that has endured for nearly 1,000 years”.
The BBC said at the time that the series would bring “Harold and William to life” with details of their personal lives, adding: “In the UK we learn about William the Conqueror, the Battle of Hastings and King Harold’s gruesome death in our school history lessons – but those headlines are all most of us can remember.”
The cast includes Norton as Harold Godwinson and Game of Thrones star Coster-Waldau as William, Duke of Normandy, alongside co-stars Juliet Stevenson and Clemence Poesy.
Without any official announcement, further details have emerged of greater diversity in the cast, with up-and-coming talents Forbes and Moore chosen for the roles of Anglo-Saxons.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Absurd
Then it will be unwatchable. The Angles and Saxons were not racially diverse. They were Germanic tribes. We know exactly what they looked like.
The link is behind a paywall.
That’s just bizarre. I would not expect or want to see Liam Neeson portraying a Zulu adviser in a telepic on the life and times of Shaka, nor would I expect or want to see Kenneth Branagh playing Crazy Horse or Geronimo.
So...we're just gonna make stuff up so it is fun for Leftists to watch and redefine history from, because...EVERYONE of any race, sex, color, or creed should have a historical hand in every single event in history!
“Absurd”
I want to see David Duke played by a . . . No, that won’t work.
About as absurd as that AI rendering of a black Nazi soldier.
I think Madonna should play Shaka. Going with the absurd theme here....
It’s a shame Paul Reubens died, he would have been great playing Shaka Zulu in a remake. “I’m Shaka... hahah!”
I’m sure white liberals would be celebrating that groundbreaking diversity!
Xena had blacks playing Helen of Troy and Cleopatra in the mid 90s, so this is nothing new. But there’s always a bit of cringe involved, at least initially. Having Denzel Washington play Macrinus in Gladiator 2 was a bit strange, but he is Denzel Washington.
The Woke Left is the turd in every punchbowl.
“We know exactly what they looked like”
Some of us get up in the morning and see them staring at us from the mirror!
Taylor Kitsch as the Angst ridden founder of the Zulu nation.
We already had Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) playing Geronimo.
1066 is when my family arrived in England.
I looked up Helen of Troy on Xena. She looked good. So I accept that one.
Cleopatra was not historically accurate but we got away with it because it was the 90s and we didn't really think too much about it at the time, I think.
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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