Darling Buds Of May Remake

[Theblip]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/bridgerton-star-recast-catherine-zeta-23687701
People of a certain age will recall the original 1990s series and its romance and marriage of Mariette, played by Catherine Zeta Jones, and Charlie the tax collector played by Philip Franks. In this remake, Charlie will be played by black actor Tok Stephens. How sizeable would the black population and how common mixed race marriages have been in Kent in the 1950s?

[emmie]

its in the link hoppy Mirror.

[zebo]

/I told my sister I was watching an episode of Frost - she said "I don't like David Jason." I was shocked/

I don't either, in Darling Buds and Fools/Horses, though I realise the last one is almost treason! I too read the books and loved them but really disliked the TV version. What's the quota of non-white actors that have to be included?

[emmie]

no idea zebo, perhaps the BBC want to be seen to be including more black actors in their programmes.

[barry1010]

Sabrina Bartlett, Hopkirk

[Hopkirk]

Oh yes, very nice, but I do feel guilty admiring someone so young. Pity they couldn't get Kristen Scott Thomas.

[barry1010]

emmie, this new series is made by ITV

[emmie]

ok then ITV wants to be seen to include more black actors.

[emmie]

Hopkirk she is 60, too old im afraid.

[barry1010]

Why can't you just accept that Tok Stephens was the best actor that was screen tested for the role, emmie?

[emmie]

i am merely responding to the OP, if you read it properly. Perhaps he was, but as said even in the 70's mixed relationships didn't go down well, talking from experience.

[Hopkirk]

60 isn't old. In her prime I would say.
Just a bit of tweaking to the script needed.

[emmie]

which part do you want her to play Hoppy, can't be Mariette???

[Hopkirk]

I don't really mind

[Sqad]

Pop Larkin.....Christopher Biggins
Ma Larkin.....Allison Hammond
Charlie....Julian Cleary
Mariette....Elton John
6 kids..2 lesbians, 2 gays, one transvestite and one body dysmorphic.

Can't wait for the new Darling Buds of May.

[emmie]

don't know who is playing Ma Larkin. she seems too posh for that role somehow.

[emmie]

sqad, you seem to get the drift, lol

[barry1010]

That famous English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, was mixed race, born in London in 1875. He married a white woman. People of mixed race were not rare in 1950s Britain, Shirley Bassey was born in 1937.

[barry1010]

Joanna Scanlan is playing Ma

[emmie]

and didn't she suffer racial abuse, as did many black people,

[emmie]

lets see how the guy does in the remake, i wasn't questioning his colour, more the social aspects of mixed relationships in the 50's.