She describes a whole tearful confrontation once she got on set with the brown hair Where as both a history buff and an actor she felt it was incredibly insulting that they thought Anne's real hair color, a huge part of her real-life image, was "wrong" for the part
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Oh Natalie. Always a Queen, but it's never easy.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
It does seem like this is mostly Henry and the rest being assholes, though, rather than something racialized?
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"Race" as we know it was still in the process of being invented back then but there absolutely was prejudice against darker complexioned people in favor of fairer complexion being a sign of virtue, which you can see in Shakespeare's plays etc.
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Replying to @OrionKidder @mssilverstein
Lol yuuup The whole "surprise Black baby" beat in Titus Andronicus feels incredibly modern when you see how it plays out
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