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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Da Shi was not British in the book lmao wtf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry - moved him to the "Asian cast but changed character" part of my comment.

Overlooked that part since his casting was literally perfect imho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes. That part is set in Nebraska now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Their version has a communist driven purge mass murdering artists and academics in Nebraska ?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

No. That person is messing with you.

The China stuff in the past still happens in China.

The present day stuff is a bunch of diff races now, not just Chinese.