28 March

There’s been extensive use of actors from a variety of ethnic/racial backgrounds in Bridgerton. That’s likely a response to the attention in recent years to the lack of diversity in TV and film. I wonder if this has led to a perverse outcome. We now have ethnic actors playing aristocrats, the very people who oppressed them in history. Is that a bit weird? A bit like making a film about the Third Reich and using lots of Jewish actors to play the Nazis?