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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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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Replying to @OrionKidder @thisniss and
He’s at least more redeemable than Richard III, who, even when he speaks his inner mind, is still cackling with evil plots
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Replying to @amazingprizzini @OrionKidder and
(I am very sympathetic to the historical Richard III who I think was a decent man, and the victim of a nasty, nasty plot. But Shakespeare’s version is just so much fun.)
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Nesmith: Oh, God, here comes Richard III Dane: I played Richard III! Nesmith: And there were three curtain calls Dane: There were three curtain calls!
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