Channel 5 has released the first trailer for the upcoming miniseries Anne Boleyn, starring The Last Ship's Jodie Turner-Smith, which you can check out above. The trailer gives us our first look at the period drama as we see the historical figure try to bear a son as an heir to the ...
” (As I said, subtlety is not the show’s strong suit.) Anne’s marginalization is further emphasized by the choice to cast her as a Black woman, one of only a handful of non-white actors among a mostly white cast. But having raised these basic if valid points,Anne Boleynseems ...
The real Anne Boleyn wasn’t Black. But as Anita Singh argues in theTelegraph’s review of the miniseries, other adaptations of the Tudor period have taken comparable liberties without attracting the level of ire directed at Turner-Smith. Showtime’s “The Tudors,” for instance, tran...