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Turner-Smith previously said that Boleynâs life resonated with her as a new mother, and that it was a story she could ârelate to as a black woman ⦠it shows how little has changed in terms of our desire to tear down powerful womenâ. She told the Guardian that âthe idea that a woman with power is a threat or must be destroyed is nothing new and somehow it seems to never get oldâ.
âLook at the last four years in America, and how certain politicians would speak about women that dared to be assertive or that demonstrated their intelligence, their power,â adds Turner-Smith. âYou think about the term ânasty womanâ [which Donald Trump used to refer to Hillary Clinton], and what that meant, and to whom. Not to mention the ways in which society demonstrates its desire to make women powerless. Every year we are marching for our right to have agency over our bodies, our reproductive health, our lives. And when you add the mistreatment that
United-kingdomJamaicaUnited-statesLondonCity-ofMoroccoGhanaBrazilBrazilianAmericaJamaicanBritishJodie Turner-Smith is every inch a queen in her fierce and passionate portrayal of Anne Boleyn in a gripping new television drama about the second of Henry VIII’s six wives.
Turner-Smith’s colour-blind casting is an ingenious move by producers Faye Ward and Hannah Farrell, because it accentuates her position as an outsider and makes us more aware of the perils she faced at the hands of her husband and his scheming courtiers.
With writer Eve Hedderwick Turner and director Lynsey Miller, the aim in Anne Boleyn was to ‘challenge the perception’ of the doomed queen ‘and even what was taught in schools’, said Ward, the creative director of Fable Pictures and a force behind Sarah Gavron’s acclaimed film Rocks (now streaming on Netflix).
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