This was a whole thing, when Natalie Dormer auditioned to play Anne Boleyn on The Tudors and got the part, she dyed her hair without telling the producers, not knowing that they cast her largely on looks and they liked her as a blonde much better than as a brunette
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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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Oh Natalie. Always a Queen, but it's never easy.
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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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Race in Shakespeare is complicated, though. His portrayals of racialized figures are meant to be read *sympathetically* compared to other work from the time, which doesn’t mean it’s not problematic. Just that it’s not purely “racist” in an historical lens.
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Harry Lennix did a great job as Aaron in the movie Titus I get the feeling Joss Whedon was inspired to have his character do a sudden heel turn on Dollhouse by that, though it ended up being a mostly wasted opportunity
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