Was Margaret Queen Of England Black?

[webbo3]

imagine the uproar if Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King were portrayed by a white actor.

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/667894/Sophie-Okonedo-Undercover-The-Hollow-Crown-Benedict-Cumberbatch-Dominic-Cooke




Dave.

[Mamyalynne]

//Was Margaret Queen Of England Black?//

No but you knew that.

Sophie is and she's a wonderful actress.

[ichkeria]

Someone white playing either of those gentlemen in a film, if it was about the things they were most famous for, might indeed seem odd. Similarly Othello - these days at least. At the time (this is quite an old link) it seemed odd watching Margaret of Anjou player by a black actress, but Margaret's colour wasn’t really relevant to the part so I’d say it was fair enough. No odder than the men who’d have played her in Shakespeare’s day anyway

[jackthehat]

Neither was Juliet a boy.......but it didn't stop her being played by such in Shakespeare's day.

I watched The Hollow Crownand was impressed by the acting not hung up on the colour of the actor/actress.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm pretty sure she was white.

[mikey4444]

Extraordinarily ignorant question Webbo !

As Mamy has said, she is an actress.

[Mamyalynne]

Not the best examples and not on a par with a Queen of England, but my tummy is rumbling.

It's showbiz Webbo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/26-times-white-actors-played-people-of-color-and-no-one-really-gave-a-sht_us_56cf57e2e4b0bf0dab313ffc

[webbo3]

Historically inaccurate tho

[Jackdaw33]

Did you ever watch The Tudors with Jonathan Rhys Meyers? Talk about historical inaccuracies!

[emmie]

i have noticed that a few white roles are going to black actors, sometimes it jars, especially on a period drama, no matter how good the black actor is. In this instance i would have cast a Caucasian, but i am not in the theatre, tv, line. Sure i will get shot down in flames, but that is just me trying to be honest.

[ichkeria]

The only way it would be truly accurate would be to bring back the original Margaret ...
It's acting. The better the actor the less it matters and she was pretty damn good as I recall.

[zebo]

I personally couldn't care less but I find it amusing that this colour situation is being dismissed as 'get over it' yet were a white actor to play a black character the heavens would fall in. The inevitable hypocrisy.

[douglas9401]

Ah, Minitrue, like it or lump it.

[Togo]

Coming soon............. a remake of Roots, with Kunta Kinte played by Eddie Redmayne.

[ichkeria]

Would the heavens fall in if a ‘black’ part was taken by a white actor?
Looks like it’s happebed many times and no one had turned a hair.
One thinks of Othello
...

[emmie]

one wonders in the days of old, say in Shakespeare's time, were there many black actors about,
if not, then the role would be taken by a white actor blacked up presumably.

[ichkeria]

In Shakespeare’s day all the women were played by men

[emmie]

i know that, i am just reminding you that in days gone by there might not have been any black actors, to fill the necessary roles like Othello.

[douglas9401]

Al Jolson. :-)

[emmie]

one of my all time favourite acts, yes he blacked his face but what a star. A Jew too - does that count for anything..