Bridgerton Why Black Cast

Nicola coughlan who portrays penelope featherington on bridgerton recently shut down critics who had something to say about the show s diverse casting in a period piece.

Bridgerton why black cast. The 30 year old actor sees bridgerton and his portrayal as simon as a crucial opportunity to spotlight black joy over black suffering telling esquire setting the story in the past doesn t. On monday jan. First is blind casting or racebending where black people or poc are cast in roles that are traditionally white or written for white people.

The bridgerton family is made up of white actors like dynevor while the duke of hastings is played by page who is black. Second is own voices where the plot is written from the vantage of a minority race. To translate bridgerton exists in a fictional 19th century london society where unlike today queen charlotte s race was never up for debate.

Here s why the producers made the queen a black woman. A duke footman lady s maid or even a respected boxer. Producers and showrunners have approached this problem in mainly two ways.

According to pbs however queen charlotte directly descended from margarita de castro y sousa a black branch of the portuguese royal house while researching a racial classification and. Bridgerton set in a fictionalized version of the early 19th century is hardly the first contemporary work to cast non white actors in period pieces both in historically plausible roles. In the show she is a black woman who ascended the throne resulting in a more accepting world filled with equal opportunity where it wasn t radical to see black elite and middle class people.

Simon s family was given their dukedom by queen charlotte played by golda. Queen charlotte is a large part of the show and she s played by a black actress which is more.