Jack Lowden told UPI that River Cartwright, the character he plays on the British espionage drama, "Slow Horses," may have taken a beating this season, but he remains determined to get his troubled career back on track.
After a viral video showed Virginia Beach police detaining an innocent Black man at Lynnhaven Mall Saturday,
Chief Paul Neudigate said his department will review his officers’ handling of the situation, according to The Virginia-Pilot.
The video, shared Sunday by activist
Shaun King, shows cops handcuffing a man who was eating with his family. Police escorted him outside and said he matched the description of a suspect, who an officer said was a “Black male with dreads that was wearing all black and was with a boy wearing red.”
“Are you serious right now?” the handcuffed man asked in the video. He said this kind of treatment is why people are marching and why people say “Black Lives Matter.”
Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’ featured an inclusive, ‘color-blind’ cast There was a time in movie and television productions when making a period piece followed a certain pattern: white actors played the roles of white history makers and white female actresses played the roles of white women history makers. Those days may be over.
Following the success of the 2019 film, “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” Hollywood filmmakers are reevaluating how to approach casting of period dramas.
“The Personal History of David Copperfield” re-imagines Charles Dickens. In the film, Black actress Rosalind Eleazer plays Agnes, the love interest of Dickens, which traditionally would have been played by a white actress. It seems a trend is following.