It will come as little or no surprise to many of us, to find that the BBC have cast various people of colour as important characters in their new version of a classic novel by Charles Dickens. Jaggers, the lawyer, is played by a Jamaican pop singer and Estelle by a woman who is partly Mauritian and partly Thai.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/great-expectations-casting
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Saturday, November 23, 2024
The BBC turn a new adaptation of Great Expectations into a multicultural extravaganza
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