Does that sound like our current resident Biden of the USA? I think it's exactly what's happened the last 3 and a half years!

she TOTALLY rolled a 20 on manip, man. i love how imperious and subtly smug she looks 0.1 seconds before slapping the shit out of the Duchess of Gloucester -- because she knows she's got her. and then 2 seconds later, after the Duchess flips on her, she looks so horrified and affronted as if SHE'S the wronged party. nnggghh SO GOOD i wanna watch this whole thing now.

She was cerci Lannister before cerci Lannister (quite literally I think since Game of Thrones was apparently heavily inspired by the Wars of the Roses)

@@seraphik both episodes of Henry VI in the Hollow Crown we’re very good, and I highly recommend them.

Well, Margaret of Anjou had a brain. I never noticed Cersei's.

Cersei has ruthless and scheming, power hungry but not cunning

@@ajvanmarle She was cunning but like Cersei she was not a good ruler.

chococo Chen exactly. Great point!

Chococo Chen. But all over the world Shakespeare plays are converted into different settings and different cultures and times. That's the nature of Shakespeare and drama. It's universal in scope and nature. That's why it's still relevant today when other plays from his time are forgotten.

Or a White mandela?

Fred C. It depends on whether the race of the person is crucial to the story. Shakespeare makes points about power in his plays that are relevant beyond his time. His plays are not pure history. They're not totally accurate as history. He changed things for dramatic effect and to please the regime of his time. Modern dramatists do the same with Shakespeare's plays to make them more relevant to a modern audience.

Helen Trope But those plays are done in different countries with different ethnicities. How the hell can they even be accurate? This was made to look accurate, but they just decided to change one single person's ethnicity and that is ridiculous.

Isn't she the fish banger.

People are too busy appealing to white supremacy to recognize how great she is in this scene.

@@HomoChomsky Black supremacy is real

@@historicamenteindependient5778 no it’s not smh

Omg love this scene!!

TheCaliMack shame for slapping her maybe

TheCaliMack Upset because the King did not defend his wife against the Duchess.

The Duchess threatened her with revenge at the end but the Queen is very hard and devious. I think the tears weren't real but just part of playing the victim to justify whatever happens to the Duchess afterwards.

Helen Trope The Queen and Duchess did not get on well. By this time, the court was divided: some for Gloucester, some for the Queen. The conflict would eventually result in a battle for the throne.

Katherine Koelker. I don't think this particular conflict between the women results in the battle for the throne, because this incident is between Lancastrians, whereas the battle for the throne was between Yorkists and Lancastrians. The Duchess of Gloucester gets accused of witchcraft and is imprisoned or exiled for that. Gloucester is imprisoned and murdered. Sorry for the spoilers.

Lydgate83 They used Shakespeare's script from Henry VI. Looks like they left out some of the Duchess' speech in this one.

...its a joke because people are flipping out about Queen Margaret being black

Lydgate83 english history is full of germans and black nobility

Christine A even the royals are german decent and have black blood flowing in there vains queen Charlotte was a black women she was one of the queens of England

Philip Franklin I do not know about black nobility. But the present Royal Family has a partially German background.

... and freeing white people from slavery

@@TheMurtukov with Quentin Tarantino directing

Don't jinx it...

There are hundreds of complaining comments here. Are you too lazy to read them?

Your comment is spot on correct Rebecca.

Smash Mouth. You are another one who hasn't read the hundreds of whinging comments here about the casting

You are whining

Uhm,this is awkward but last time I checked,Greeks were white.

Not if the Queen has any sense. This is an insult that by the standards of the time could never be forgiven. Even royalty was not above tradition and the last thing the king needed was to alienate nobility like this.

@@ajvanmarleUm…When the Queen held her Ladies back and looked at the Duchess to pick up her fan, that was a Royal Command. The Duchess steps forward and looks at the Queen. The Queen asks, “Can ye not?” Wanting to know if she is physically unable to bend down. The Duchess looks defiantly at the Queen in a microsecond and then the slap comes. What the Duchess has done is defy a Royal order and has made it known she is an enemy of the Queen. The Queen quickly turns tables to become the hurt party. Brilliant politics here!

2:04 - the queen slaps the peeress

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂love it

Ahh, you smoothbrains. Making such ludicrously false equivalencies because you just have no concept of how racial issues work, nor their context, nor the function of theater. An American white man portraying MLK, an American black man who dedicated his life to fighting for civil rights for black Americans. If the potential issues with that escape you, I guess you don’t have any concept of America’s racial history. One which MLK himself was directly involved in. Even if the white actor weren’t American, I assume you’re smart enough to understand why a white actor playing a black man fighting for black civil rights might offend black Americans. If you can’t fathom that...think long and hard. Now. Let’s talk about these plays. Shakespeare in particular. These plays are repeated through countless productions, and will continue to be performed indefinitely. And race is not a topic in them (Othello being an exception, but I’ll get to that). Now, what precisely is so problematic about a black actor playing the role of a white English noble that puts it equivalent to a white person playing MLK? Nothing. Because the play has nothing to do with topical issues of race like anything concerning MLK would. And as it is a play that is repeatedly performed, one production with a single black actress isn’t robbing you of your precious all-white criteria. You still have many to choose from. So stop bitching, yea? Your whiteness, nor any issues of race, isn’t compromised by any part of this play. Race is only an issue in this case because you’re focusing on the skin color of the actors, rather than their performances, *which is what shakespeare and theater in general is all about* ! Because your lack of understanding of racial issues makes you make dumbass comparisons like this. Now, Othello. Othello has been played by Patrick Stewart, and a long line of white actors before him, some in blackface. It was generally accepted (blackface notwithstanding) because again, it’s a Shakespeare play. Historical accuracy is not the point, the performances are. Having a white person play MLK, play or not, within 60 years of his death, when black Americans still face the racism he fought, will obviously be a problem. Having a black actress play an English noble over 500 years dead, in a play written and embellished by someone who wasn’t even there to a point bordering on fiction for entertainment purposes, and which is entirely unconcerned with race or any current events, matters so little that it’s only when racist morons like you start bitching using the most idiotic, desperate arguments possible that it becomes an issue at all. And only then it’s only an issue because you have to be educated on the most basic of racial dynamics in order to shut you up.

​@@BeggarsNight What a load of crap. Both blackwashing and whitewashing is offensive.

They had black nobility in Europe

@@patriciagriffith7402 oh you mean they were kings and shit? Wow we’ve never heard that before.

Gross.

She's half white. Half black people play black people all the time. She passes for white to me *Shrugs*

I want to clarify that I calling this comment gross, not the actress.

Dino Fancellu Just watch Gods of Egypt with a Swedish cast, that's the biggest laugh, pink white people as African gods. You people have no shame, crying like you lost your best friend because the sista is doing what you have done since the beginning of film.You play Indians, Chinese people, black people Puerto Ricans and have no problem with it.. At least Queen Charlotte was black and there had been a black Queen of England in history (although not Queen Margaret). Can't say the same is true on the throne of Egypt and in their pantheon of Gods. Last I checked no pink white faces there.But hell that never stops you from lying lol!

It is almost as entertaining as Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra, Charlton Heston as Moses, or Yule Brynner as the King of Siam.

The establishment aims to rewrite history in order to propagate the lie that Europe was multicultural.

@@thedifferenttraveller5684 She’s half-white

@@alexissimpson5819 again, no. Half nigerian and half ashkenazi jewish

@@alexissimpson5819 no amount of copying and pasting that ridiculous comment is gonna make it better you braindead sheep.

@@thedifferenttraveller5684 It was, go cry to Boris Johnson.

or perhaps he could be played by an Etonian Gamer.

🤣😂Damn u guys! Now im imagining it...NOOOOOOOO!🤣😭

She’s half-white

😂😂😂😂

Black nobles? In the renaisssnce?

Queen Margaret was seen as a foreigner in England. Though she was French, Sophie Okonedo's background acts as a metaphor for that sense of difference.

@@heliotropezzz333 Riiiight, ;^)

@@jacktrevino1108 Any relation to Lee?

Or Richard III "Un caballo! My kingdom por un CABALLO!"

@@tlotpwist3417 Do you mean Richard III?

@Smiles and the Twisted MD *One does not simply understand a joke*

@Smiles and the Twisted MD*It's still a joke though*

That was too funny! 😂😂😂

@Smiles and the Twisted MD I'm glad you finally laughed for the first time in 3 weeks. I'm now gonna let the 57 likes on that *joke* speak for itself.

Same

Oh yea, Doctor Who reference~

Yeah I was Like I just saw the episode (again 😂) and this is in my recommendation and then there's your comment with the reference of Doctor Who 😂 loving it

If You're the Queen I'm The Princess!!!🤣😘🤗🤭💖💕

OR RICHARD GERE

that's racist and very insensitive towards people of hawaaian and kenyann descent.

@@damarh yeah it would be wouldn't it. 😂

And she was WHITE

No.

"Can ye not?". The Duchess refused to pick up the fan. Yet in time she would be caught up in something considered far worse.

Ah…but the Queen also knew who her enemies were in that moment. Great scene!

except this play is not war of the roses. Keep it moving, Tuffty

@@rebeccaherschman3069 Girl... you sound like a dipshit 🤣

But Margaret was WHITE and French

So what? If Olivier can play Othello, Okonedo can play Margaret. Does not matter who the actor is, as long as the character comes to vivid life.

@@deehuckleberry3999 two wrongs don't make a right It was stupid then and it's stupid now.

@@wbheightfive6760holy shit who cares

Mel1lvar I agree they also use European looking biracial to play Storm a bad repretion of dark skin black women

Mel1lvar i wonder what would happen if they cast jesus as a white man. Ohh they do.

Mel1lvar. Othello has been played by white people in black face before black players were allowed to play in the theater. So what’s your offense?

of course shut up

Cleopatra? Elizabeth Taylor? Really?! An Egyptian? We do know where Egypt is located right? Ricardo Montalban played a Native American in Westerns. Please, don’t get me started.

If it's the kind of thing where historical accuracy is important, but Shakespeare always played around with history. It's drama not historical fact. Shakespeare plays have been set in a variety of times with a variety of actors. There have been all male players and all female players and a Macbeth set in Nazi times etc etc

All movies are fictional. None is historical. Only documentaries are historical. That being said even in fictional work the characters must be believable. This isn't. It's just a political... joke.

Centurion. It's certainly not a joke. It's a good performance and you forget about the casting if you watch the whole thing and get involved with it. Also the character she's playing was regarded with suspicion and dislike, being a foreigner (French). Though Sophie isn't French her casting acts as a good metaphor for people perceiving her different background at the time

It would be controversial and there will always be someone offended and willing to protest but on something like that I would not care because it was an actor like Anthony Hopkin. Just don't put him in dark make up and/or a curly wig and I'm fine with it. That's what happened for years to rolls for blacks, asians, Native American and Mexican characters. It would just be white actors made up to look like other races. The Wayne brothers could never make White Chicks now a days. I don't know why white people did not protest that movie at the time.

Solomeya Shiukashvili what about all the years whites have played the roles of people of color? This is basically what this has looked like to us for years ! See how you don’t like it ? How do you think we felt all those years with black and yellow face being the most common?

Shakespeare was never an accurate source of history. As a dramatist he was more interested in the drama of his stories.

Margaret of Anjou, not Valois.

But she was white

@@historicamenteindependient5778 mister obvious

She is literally nicknamed the white queen for god's sake !

@@scinformation7229 yeah i mixed them together ( elizabeth and margareth ), doesn't change the fact that she was white and blond in all her depictions .

Who cares it’s a show/movie

@jay bell she was a related to Ptolemy, one of great Alexander's generals and first Greek king of Egypt. Do you even know history?

@@stormbringer2840 No she wasn't. Elisabeth Woodville was known as "the White Queen".

YAAAAS QUEEEN!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@angelique25m11 So what's up my ______ with Jackie Chan taking the role?

@@angelique25m11 it's now racist to be annoyed at a black woman being cast as English queen. I forgot that everything is racist in 2020.

@@angelique25m11 Not racist, just sick.

Arrogant French woman.

Many comments about the casting, almost none about the play, from people who've not watched the whole play I suspect. In some castings, like that of Harriet Tubman, the race of the character is important to the drama but it's not crucial in this play for Margaret. She was regarded as a foreigner anyway as she was French but it's not crucial that she be played by a French woman.

consider offing yourself Helen, you're a mindless social justice warrior.

Evil etc. What do you mean "offing" and who are you to tell me what to do?

Evil etc. I've just looked up "offing" in the urban dictionary. It refers to suicide. I've now reported you for cyber bullying. Have a nice day.

you're defending black washing, if you did it the other way around the social justice brigade would do more then call you names online.

noti tuz its disgusting!

noti tuz Or a Japanese Macbeth (see Throne of Blood) Or an American or English Hamlet or Romeo. Tut tut.

noti tuz Probably ..lol ..Or a black Henry ..

I'm just gonna say it your being painfully racist look at the times people

They shouldn't have hired her. Same goes for the Cleopatra shit, plus Cleo wasn't black or white, more like ancient Middle-East Arabs (Babylonian, Syrian, Any Asian minor)

You can take the boy out of his racist, Idaho, trailer park but you can't....etc..

@@shawn6669 But he’s right. It works both ways or doesn’t work at all….

So sorry you are so stupid not to realize that this is based on HISTORY. The queen was not black. Wishful thinking won’t make it so.

THIS!!!

​@@karmasauce6288i wanna see white Harriet Tubman

interesting how they kept all them white except 1 blackwashed Queen 🙄 i didn't see asian, latino, indian, etc

@vanessa mziray "Hurr durr, we wuz English nobility. You don't make sense!" That's you.

Shakespeare said Margaret was young, fair maiden but Okonedo is 47 years old and not fair skinned. Its historically inaccurate.

KC Miles.One historical description I read about Margaret was that her skin was quite tanned. She came from the South of France where it's hot. Also Okonedo does not look her age. She looks much younger.

OctoV70. Don't watch it then, if you don't like it. Your dramatic "suspension of disbelief" isn't working. Juliet in Romeo and Juliet is usually played by someone much older than 13 years but people don't usually complain.

People don't complain about it because it's not politically motivated. Also tanned skin doesn't mean african ancestry.

So do they have to go to Anjou and find someone who looks like a typical Anjou woman?

@@heliotropezzz333 A typical anjou woman can be fair to tan skinned with either red hair , blond hair or black hair . By the way she is literally called the white queen with 0 african blood , Im pretty sure it is quite wrong .

Shakespeare was never about historical accuracy but about stories and drama which have universal themes, so his plays are often produced in modern times in different eras and settings with different types of cast. Those who criticise this casting are not real fans of Shakespeare I think and don't watch his plays much.

Helen Trope There is political agenda behind casting of this role. It is the agenda of the same interest group which arranged the Harry - Meghan marriage. Remember “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”

@@BalkanMode Oh lighten up and join the 21st century. I'm sure they said that the first time women were allowed on stage. Shakespeare had to use men dressed as women of course.

Why?

For white people: Is a missrepresentation of the population and important characters of a particular historical period, and an exclusion from the casting process based on race and political agenda (textbook racism). For black people: Instead of giving us interesting, new black characters, true to our ethnic and cultural identity and heritage, we are stuck with having to play and see representation of white characters played by black people. Is condecending, patronizing and plain racist. The Shakespeare argument: Theatre and cinema are 2 very different artistic vehicles, where cinema is tide to a partiall or total representation of reality while theatre is not. Some good example of some tastefull film adaptations of Shakespeare's theatre work could be: Macbeth (2015): Conserving most of Shakespeare original dialog with a realistic attempt of depiction of Scotish people from that period. The Merchant of Venice (2004): Again conserving most of Shakespeare original dialog with a realistic attempt of depiction of Italian people from that period. Romeo + Juliet (1996): A radical transformation of the classic, set in a different place and time that justify a multiracial casting, while conserving most of Shakespeare original dialog. RAN (1985): A feudal Japan version of King Lear, Ran is an interesting take on Shakespeare work. retelling a classic tragedy with a completely different setting and culture. THIS is the best example as to why these modern SJWs BS does not know how to even make diversity and inclusion right. In RAN you DO NOT have an all Celtic cast with a Japanese king (which would be racist, stupid and tasteless, just like this representation of Queen Margaret), instead you have an all Japanese cast and a story set in feudal Japan, strongly showing the asian culture in a very respectfull way. This is genious filmaking and a milestone in how Shakespeare work can be acomodated to represent any culture and period, and still successfully explore human nature.

I disagree. It doesn 't necessarily mean the casting excluded any group. She was probably the best actress they auditioned and that's why she got the part. This isn't a film. It's a TV series of Shakespeare plays. Why is race the most important characteristic to be accurate about? Shakespeare plays can never be 100% because the original characters are dead and no single person will be exactly the same as the original no matter what their race. With Shakespeare plays, you have to use your imagination.

@@heliotropezzz333 This is postmodern trash dressed masquerading as legitimate criticism.

@@heliotropezzz333 Shakespeare did mess with historical accuracy, but I’m sorry. The Queen was a white woman.

✋🏼 I do

@@zeusgiron784 You saved my faith in humanity.

Than I am glad. As a mix race guy, it is just Shakespeare play. It isn’t supposed to be a historical doc.

@@zeusgiron784 Exactly

Yea that was fucked up.. I guess we just need to rely on people knowing their history. The saviour of man born in the Middle East couldn't possibly be white. BUT, this has been f&@c!ed with for millennia so white man would identify with the figure head of a foreign religion that was usurping their native faiths in order to control Europe, and to this day that was never amended in the minds of most white people. Genghis Khan couldn't be mistaken as a white man though as he's regularly taught about it schools. But, Henry VI? And even more questionable his wife? Personally, I was never taught about the English monarchy in the Australian public schools I attended (I taught myself about this stuff long after I finished school). This could definitely be taken out of context and fool the less equipped.

To Charlton Heston and John Wayne the answer is simple; Bankability. Name me a famous, bankable asian actor from 1956 who could have played Genghis, name me a famous bankable actor from 1956 who looks like they could be from the Levant? Thankfully today there are actors of all ethnicities to play these parts but at the time Hollywood was still lily white. Also lets face it; white actors have played Jewish and Jewish has played white for decades and no-one bats an eyelid. This isn't 1956, the BBC made a concious choice to cast a black actress for a white role.

Tell them.

Logan Cox, I acctualy agree, it is stupid that Semitic characters from the Bible were played by White European actors, as it is stupid that a black woman should be playing a medieval French woman.

De fff look at my long post below, in wich I have explained my viewpoint. Yes ofcourse I am equally opposed, my problem is also that criticising black actors playing non-black characters will be carachterised as racist, whilst that is not the case with white actors playing non-whites, wich is good becouse such things should always be called out, but people (and it's ussualy not black people, but mostly guilt-ridden Whites) seem to be annoyed when people are against black playing non-blacks. So I think they are the acctual hypocrites. Furthermore I have a enormous problem with the ''diversity quota'' concept, the sad fact that miss Okonedo was cast as the Queen simply to spice things up and start these kinds of conflicts, she was, I am convinced, becouse I know how modern producers function. And that is so inherently racist towards non-Whites, becouse these idiots assume that black people are so one-dimensional that they will acctualy feel better if they see one of their own on the stage or in the film, eventough it is in a role no one would rationally put them in, the absurd idea that people of colour acctualy spend time thinking about these things and wishing them, this patronizing idea that blacks and/or other minorities in White countries are so sensitive that God forbbid these sorts of things wouldn't happen and God forbbid even more that someone would think of criticising them. It is simple when people, no matter if they are White or Black or Asian, go and see a movie about medieval England they don't expect to see people other than Whites appearing on screen, when they go to see a historical movie set in medieval China, they expect to only see Asians there and ofc if they are going to see a movie set in old Africa they only expect to see Blacks in it.

sarah siajibckx lol get over it!

island girl Over what exactly?

anastasia * over a black actress playing the role of a french queen. Which is what the majority of discussions have been about on this video. Keep up love!

I wonder how many people talking about the actress' skin colour are actually from the countries the real Queen Margaret represented lol -- Shakespeare isn't a history lesson, if you wanted historical accuracy I should think of 100 things to be changed in the play before something as trivial as Margaret's skin colour...

Cleopatra wasn't black though.

In the play she has an affair with Suffolk, not Somerset.

I feel him. Bet he always wanted to jump out of the window and get rid of stupid humans.

+Cheekypop white people don't have a history of being prejudiced and discriminated against, nor are we in any way underrepresented in the media, unlike people of colour. It's not the same thing. Also, what is so wrong with striving for diversity?

+Danish Nerdess Go campaign for diversity in Bollywood and Japan. No? Diversity just means less white people.

+Connor D your comment is idiotic because you're comparing diversity in Britain and the U.S. to India and Japan, ignoring the fact that the latter two are largely homogenous just because it doesn't fit into your narrative of attempting to portray white actors as victims. Now, if you were to compare how Japan treats Koreans and Chinese immigrants to how America treats it's immigrants of color then you're on to something. But you're still comparing apples and oranges.

+Danish Nerdess that's irrelevant, either characters should be authentic to their race or they shouldn't be. Not one rule for one group and another rule for another.

WinterAffair Non whites should have never been allowed to settle in our homogeneous country.

This is Shakespeare lol

The actress is mixed race.

The serpent seed ofc.

*HAND RUBBING INTENSIFIES*

Is there a problem?

I'm guessing this took place before the WoR so Margaret?

Pharaoh of Kemet Yes, a big one. The queen was a white woman. Not that ulgy piece of BBC Shit.

c'est margaret d'acajou... 🤣🤣🤣

Jedovatý Natis Nobody cares.

Jedovatý Natis yes it is insulting our ancestors (I am French myself)

+Esseynelle Having black actress to play a Shakespeare play is insulting? Does seeing black people offends you? Cause you need help.

seenorhear am black and i agree dont cast white people in black people roles and vice versa would you cast tom cuise as nelson mandela if a role has to do with a certain enithicity then dont do it it is historically correct

seenorhear Queen Margaret is not a fictional character. All though Shakespeare's historical drama plays are not necessarily historically accurate, the characters were real people. If we were to cast a black woman as Queen Margaret, how about we cast Hugh Jackman as Shaka Zulu or Kenneth Branagh as Nelson Mandela? Changing the race of a historical figure is absurd at best.

She’s a very good Actor. Great scene!

It’s Shakespeare company, they choose actors fit the role as depicting in the play. It’s Shakespeare afterall, not history

No

It is. Too bad she is being used as a "statement", which in a way is very racist.

She’s half-white

@John Doe Yes

I would prefer the Queen Margaret of Cashew instead...😆

Kite Flying Pooh bbc hates whiteness.

Exactly. Facts do not matter to BBC anymore.

The fact that the Doctor has only ever been a white guy has always been bizarre. He should be able to regenerate into a whole slew of races, genders, and appearances.

Eh. Who cares? It's Shakespeare, not an actual documentary?

you guys are so racist and yet still try to deny hahaha!

+Duncan Sands It's a play and plays often require us to use our imagination. When this play was written Margaret would've have been played by a young man and I'm sure the original audience didn't have as big a problem with this as some people on here seem to have with the colour of Sophie's skin. This isn't a play about race (as far as I know the war between Yorks and Lancasters wasn't about skin colour) so I feel that your example of a white man playing Malcolm X doesn't really work here although I notice you seem quite keen on using him as an example....

+Duncan Sands Oooh have I upset you? Context you say? What about a Northern Irish actor playing Richard Plantagenet. He didn't disguise his accent, no comments about that though. Ah, but he's white though so it's all good. And I seriously doubt that about the BNP marches, although it does depend which side you were on........

+Duncan Sands LOL! I really have touched a nerve with you haven't I? I fully accept that you've conceded to me though...... :)

+Arthel Cargill Agree with what though?

+Arthel Cargill I get the point about Zoe Saldana and I agree with you but I don't believe that Shakespeare mentions the colour of Queen Margaret's skin anywhere in his plays.

Mank Demes If we did that we’d need to watch a lot of meat, skin, and possibly genitals as part of the “diverse” African history. By the time Europeans arrived there was not even a two story house in Africa.

so all the black actors need to go to africa to work?? and hten the african actors are gonna say why cna they celebrate african actors potraying african hisotry instead of foreing actors

If you like it or not. They are apart of European History. George the 3rd of England wife for example had African blood in her.

And I dont see a problem. With a black actress, playing the part. Of a European French white Queen of England.

@@sarahjuarez1433 Lol, is this satire?

When they stop crying about "whitewashing " then you have a point. Until then stop bitching

EXACTLY. This is far from a literal recreation of history even if they'd cast 100% white actors.

@@steveiam5762 She’s half-white

@@alexissimpson5819 and? The left cries about whitewashing all the time

@@steveiam5762 I’m saying she’s not Black.

I don't think hair colour and race are comparable 🤣

@@philbecker4676 its the same.

@@ferzach8687 Hmmm, I think you'd have a hard time finding people who'd compare apartheid and the civil rights struggles of black people in America to people being ginger, but you do you 🤣

@@philbecker4676 hhahahahahahaahha

Yeah, but thats because The Other Boleyn Girl is a movie (and book) that a lot of history lover would rather forget - or destroy.

Xx_Dope_Master_Legend_27_DabMaster_xX yep

The Henry VI plays are among Shakespeare's early works and far from his best. Apart from the stunt casting, the producers have further hurt the plays by cutting large sequences, e.g most of the Joan of Arc portions, that do not fit with present day opinions. An infinitely better version is the 1960 "An Age of Kings" produced by the BBC and starring such actors as Sean Connery, Judy Dench, Julian Glover, Angela Baddeley and Eileen Atkins who plays Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) as Shakespeare wrote her, not as we would want her to be.

I come from the future to warn you not to go back to GoT!

This comment didn’t age well lol

Latonya Johnson im confused on that part.

Mande Loo You were meant to understand that it was fake. This is a powerful woman one minute, pretending to be the victim the next. This is a public demonstration, so that the downfall of the Gloucesters that follows from this scene is understood and accepted by the Court.

but the fact that changed her skin color almost turned me into nazi

You're probably pretty well a nazi already then. Didn't you know? This is not site for comments from Shakespeare lovers, but for petty minded racists - judging by the comments anyway. Most wouldn't know Shakespeare if he bit them on the backside.

you know what? Forget it what i said. But changing history because some members of certain ethnic group are lazy to study history pisses me off. by the way i have nothing against black people, asians, arabians but this thing cringe me.

I think it's about widening the audience for plays like this, not just in Britain but internationally (in the US for instance). It's played more as a drama than a strict history. If it was a history programme I'm sure they wouldn't be so flexible with the casting.

It is in the original play. She slaps her and feigns not having recognizing the Duchess of Gloucester. And after that, she plans to remove Gloucester and his wife. Crocodiles tears.

missmysterymagic.This scene shows some power play between the Queen and the Gloucesters. The Queen is stronger than the King (Henry VI was a notably pious but weak king who suffered from periodic mental illness). The Duke of Gloucester is the Lord Protector. Basically he was regent from the time Henry was a baby because Henry was a baby when his father died and he inherited the throne. Certain factions including the Queen want to be rid of the Gloucesters because Henry is now an adult, but the Duke of Gloucester is still exerting power over him. This scene shows the beginning of the movement to oust the Gloucesters from power (which happens afterwards).

Yes, Anjou is a French name. But the actress doesn't look French either (not even like the Burkha-clad ISIS-brides that currently hold French passports). In fact, she didn't look like a European queen at all, for that matter. The black actress might have played a decent Harriet Tubman, though - which hopefully won't be played by a white actress. Not only for the sake of historical accuracy but from fear that a certain minority might try to start a race war and loot entire neighbourhoods.