yeah I don’t get that. Pence managed to be a subtle bigot instead of a raging bigot? so he won - by appearing less obviously horrible if you weren’t listening to the words coming out of his mouth? hooray?

as someone who does all three of those things, I still had horrible skin problems until my 30s as a result of a genetic issue inherited from both sides of my family. and I tried literally everything - it took medicine, regular trips to the dermatologist, and learning the art of make-up actually to give me the…

if I recall he filmed Sleepy Hollow in the UK. just like someone mentioned in this thread, in the end his gothic style is actually much more New England than it is even British. but I think he is an Anglophile and is relying on that influence now. I mean he did Alice in Wonderland VERY recently as well and touched on…

I lived in NYC, was born in Wisconsin, and lived in an incredibly dodgy part of London. I think I can handle insane rent, snow, and crime. there were nights walking in London that felt practically Dickensian. in a bad way :)

I think that is why most people couldn’t stop watching.

I just moved here, I love it. I am still getting used to it in many ways, but I would never poo poo this city.

probably didn’t mention him because I stopped watching Downton Abbey at that point.

yeah I wish I could go back and put quotation marks around my use of “English” I think that might of cleared up what I was trying to say. it is an Anglophile’s view of England, a fantasy, but it is something perpetuated not just by Burton but by things like Downton Abbey and the Potter films. I mean the Harry Potter…

that’s the thing we probably didn’t even GET Colourblind here in the USA. we only get the shows and movies that are bought by broadcasting companies and movie studios here, and those are the ones that people assume will want to see. so magic and hat wearing aristocrats and all that. and I don’t MIND that, but that is…

this is what I mean - it is a fantasy and a stereotype that Americans and Hollywood and I think many in the UK (when it comes to show business) like to hold on to. I have English and British heritage and I lived in London for two years, so now back here in the USA I just get kind of enraged by all the stereotypes and…

and I am fine with that - I do not agree that we should stick in people of color into shows and stories if it makes no sense. but that is how I felt about the black jazz player, it seemed like they just stuck him in for the sake of having a black actor on screen. either they should have given him a real role and…

this exactly. that is what I meant by calling Burton’s style “English” because there is a strong sense over here in the states that “English” = everyone in the UK. we lump it together without any sense of just how diverse a place the UK actually is, and how it plays a huge role in identity and history and the overall…

haven’t gotten to see Richard III yet but would love to!

yeah, I mean it is definitely starting to shift. but we still can’t have a black James Bond apparently. and there is still I think a weird hang up that black characters and people of color couldn’t have possibly existed in the Victorian era. films like Belle are starting to shift this narrative and they made a film…

but that’s just it - the one black character was created to show something about another white character, he never really existed for his own sake.

but I’m not sure I consider them a featured character within the film? I am referring to real thought out characters who had names and plot arcs and stories to tell.

having lived there as an artist I can tell you it is something that is regularly talked about among actors, especially actors of color, and not just black but many people of Indian and Middle Eastern decent as well. there is a heavy lack of representation in the arts. it is pretty easy to see that when you’ve spent…

this is literally the point I am making. this is the current thinking in the UK. I am not sure people understood what I wrote - I very much said that this is a PROBLEM. sigh. thanks a lot internet.

exactly! it would be exciting, but it seems fairly half-assed and incompetent right now. I think it either needs to be a very deliberate decision or they should just do more colorblind casting.

so what if Lord of the Rings was 15 years ago? there were actors of color then. also half if not 90% of the cast was British, it doesn’t matter where they filmed it?