BBC Cast a Black Woman as a Historical English Queen.

Do you not remember people complaining about Idris Elba playing Heimdall in Thor or the mere notion of him playing James Bond? Or John Boyega playing a stormtrooper in The Force Awaken? or Michael B Jordan playing Johnny Storm? or Samuel L Jackson playing Nick Fury?

I've seen way more a double standards in people arguing against this sort of casting, sayings "PC gone stupid", "diversity for diversity's sake" to complain about casting a typically white role with a minority, then use those same arguments to try argue with people upset that a role associated with an ethnic minority gets played by a white person.

Whether it's hypocrisy or not depends on who is saying it, as well as why they are saying it.

Some of us in this thread have been putting forward an essentially conservative argument for including people who only have recent ancestry in this country, in particular non-whites, in an important part of English culture.

I'm not enough of a narcissist to assume that you pay attention to my posts, but the last thing I am is an SJW, and I'm pretty sure I criticised the people who were bitching about the oscars on this very forum.

What possible relevance could this have?

Even JK Rowling was fine with the Hermione thing, she even said she never even originally stated Hermione's race.

IMO she said that not to offend the PC crowd. Just that the book repeatedly mentions she's pale, she turns bright pink when she blushes which people notice (I'd say if she was dark skinned it's not as obvious) and her mum is very pale with green eyes, though in fairness it doesn't mention her dad, but It makes me think she rather did intend them to be white.

Also her own drawing of them, though maybe she's **** at doodling black girls skin tone with pencil.

http://holykaw.alltop.com/harry-potter-characters-drawn-by-jk-rowling-i

Does the book say if she is tall or short, fat or thin, has more than one leg etc?

A lot of racists complain immigrants refuse to integrate or learn to be British. Here is an actor doing that exact thing and they get all out of shape over it, its hilarious.

How is it racist to complain about immigrants refusing to integrate or 'learn to be British'? That sounds like a pretty reasonable reason to complain.

By the way, no one is actually faulting the actress herself; she didn't choose her role. Yet another incoherent and irrelevant argument from you in this thread. Well done.

By the way, no one is actually faulting the actress herself; she didn't choose her role. Yet another incoherent and irrelevant argument from you in this thread. Well done.

I wonder if the natives in Dubai complain the Brits over there are acting all none araby.

Of course she choose her role, do you think she was walking around doing actory things and the BBC called her out of the blue and told her she has the role in their new drama? Seriously!

i dont know what else that guy has said BUT what you are saying isnt the point. We encourage foreigners to come here and integrate with society yet we as britons are criticising the BBC for this. That sends a bad message and encourages non integration, and yet on other threads we complain about this too.

I mean hypocrisy from the national media. Obviously on the internet inevitably you'll get people arguing everything and anything from every perspective, but there's a definite, for want of a better word, 'narrative' by the national media over reporting of this. I assure you I definitely wasn't accusing hypocrisy on your part!
Or maybe I'm just paranoid. Meh.

Accurately portraying historical figures really has nothing to do with how well foreigners integrate with our society. There are multiple other roles and multiple others TV shows/ movies where they are fairly represented.

Well I was backing up his original statement.

This isnt some accurate historical portrayal, its an adaptation of Shakespeare's work. It's already based on events that arent true so accuracy is not necessary even if the original person was white since it is all fictional anyway. Something that is fictional doesnt need to give a sense of realism. If you feel it makes it less 'real' then tough, its fictional anyway.

When we criticise the portrayal of the character from a fictional story, we send a wrong message to foreigners.