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[davebro]

Will you find a black Anne Boleyn believable?

[Mozz71]

Tora, don't worry, she'll be playing Pelé in his autobiography instead. Her ball skills are to be marvelled at.

[jno]

Anne Boleyn was 5' 3" tall* and having her played by any actress who is taller or shorter than this will be a historical outrage and I will write to someone to demand that she (if it's a she) be sacked.

*including head

[dave50]

Don't actors always apply make up to look like the character they are trying to portray? Isn't putting on black make up to look like someone with a dark skin colour the same?

[davebro]

exactly Dave - so why don't black actors use white make-up?

[AuntPollyGrey]

Well I don't care what the virtue signallers say on here -a black anne boleyn is just plain daft ,and being done probably so people will watch what will no doubt be a d-rate programme.

[Mozz71]

Disagreeing with you and virtue signalling are two very different things Polly.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I don't mind who disagrees with me Mozz, There are so many 'right on' people on here who are probably about as racist & right wing as you can get, but pretend to be otherwise. Each to their own, I prefer plain talk, gets me into trouble sometime but at least I say what I mean!

[davebro]

anyway I won't be watching - probably after my bedtime!

[pixie374]

Was Anne Boleyn really a TV actress? So fake...

[davebro]

And if Anne Boleyn was black wouldn't Elizabeth I be a person of colour? Looking fwd to THAT movie!

[AuntPollyGrey]

I think she worked down the chip shop Pixie -gave Henry extra scraps and...well...the rest is history...:-)

[davebro]

not

[AuntPollyGrey]

davebro she was a ginger...don't go there!

[pixie374]

Fair enough then :-)

[Arksided]

APG... a black anne boleyn is just plain daft
I totally agree, a real life historical person... not a fictional character.

I wouldn't have watched it anyway TBH.

[davebro]

Oh - and her brother is black too (of course) & possibly trans?

[smurfchops]

No ridiculous.

[dance2trance]

Yes of course particularly as next month a Kenyan Boudicca conquers an Afro-Caribbean Roman army. Later in the season an autistic Chinese Queen Victoria visits Australia where she opens the world's first waterfall.

[Mamyalynne]

We'll soon be able to decide how good the production is.

Starts, Tuesday 1st June Channel 5 at 9 PM, three episodes.

[douglas9401]

Historians are now insisting that her lesbian tendencies be referenced in an episode called Black, Out.