The Jamie Lloyd Company has hit back after its production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” has been the subject of what they call a “barrage of deplorable racial abuse” aimed at an unnamed cast member.

The play, directed by Jamie Lloyd (“Sunset Boulevard”), stars “Spider-Man: No Way Home” star Tom Holland as Romeo and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers (“Sex Education”) as Juliet.

On Friday, the Jamie Lloyd Company issued a statement, saying: “Following the announcement of our ‘Romeo & Juliet’ cast, there has been a barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company. This must stop.”

  • hannes3120@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    7 months ago

    Also observe how those “replacement in race” people are completely silent on the 3 body problem show that made pretty much all of the Chinese characters from the book into westerners

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      7 months ago

      I haven’t watched the Netflix show. Do they actually cast western actors in the roles during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (purge)?

      • hannes3120@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        Ye Wenjie is the only asian main characters that are completely true to the books and casted accordingly.

        Jin Cheng and Da Shi (replaces Cheng Xin) are the other Asian casted main characters. The rest of the main. Cast ist European/American

    • LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      7 months ago

      who said everybody is completely silent? nobody in the states aside from sci Fi nerds knew about 3 body until now. and for all the Chinese people I’ve asked, myself included, who read the book before the show came out are pissed they replaced the Chinese hero characters with not Chinese people and made all the Chinese people the bad guys. it’s fucked and not a correct comparison here…