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Criticized By Newspaper Columnist For “Absurd” Decision To Cast Egyptian-Born Actor As Her Yorkshire Ancestor

posted 8 months ago by Satan2016 (25525)
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https://deadline.com/2024/04/wolf-hall-petronella-wyatt-casting-amir-el-masry-ancestor-1235880223/

Journalist Petronella Wyatt has written a column in The Daily Telegraph questioning the “absurd” decision to cast Egyptian-born Amir El-Masry as Yorkshireman Thomas Wyatt.

The character was played by Slow Horses star Jack Lowden in Season 1 of the BBC/PBS Masterpiece drama, which premiered in 2015.

Wyatt praised The Crown star El-Masry’s acting credentials, but said color-blind casting for a story rooted in British history was tantamount to “cultural appropriation.”

Other diverse casting decisions for Season 2 include Lady Margery Seymour being played by Sarah Priddy, who is from a mixed heritage British-African family. Nan Seymour is played by Cecilia Appiah, who featured in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

[–] Martoto (5036) 8 months ago

Snowflake twit needs to get a life.

Wolf Hall is a fictitious novel based on historical people and events. It's not a documentary.

Casting people who aren't from round here to play out a drama pales significantly next to the rewriting of history and the obvious anti-Catholic bias in Mantel's work.

I like Wolf Hall as a piece of drama/fiction. It should only be treated as such, by the relatively few who have actually watched it.

[–] Stratego (30510) 8 months ago

"color-blind casting"

Lol, sure.