Fans of Bridgerton are going wild for the new Netlfix spin-off Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story now airing on Netflix. So just who is Tenji Kasim, of Scotland, playing the hunky part of Adolphus?
Hailed by
Notting Hill with a number of stage credits across his career.
He originally worked backstage at both the Birmingham Rep and the National, before moving on stage for the likes of a National Theatre production of
Measure for Measure, with other credits including seasons at the RSC.
Other credits include the Tricycle (now Kiln) production of August Wilson s
Two Trains Running, directed by Paulette Randall, with the 90s being filled with shows such as
The Coup at the National and
Burning Blue at the Kings Head and in the West End.
This side of the millennium, in 2007 he appeared in
AL: African-American culture contains a treasure trove of wonderful music. Yet there is this entire category of song that seems to have disappeared from history. I’m thinking about the song
In Atlanta, Georgia with the line, “I’m gonna get me a pistol and hide behind a tree / shoot everybody been messin’ with me.” This is a lyric with a far different sentiment than “We Shall Overcome,” but I don’t know that many people have ever heard it. What kind of songs did Gellert uniquely bring forward?
SG: Yes, your question called to my mind the book
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja. And I certainly take your point. The strident I’ll use the term “radical” nature of the some of the lyrics in the Gellert field archive is precisely what raised eyebrows, approvingly and disapprovingly. It seemed new and different. That is, the songs appeared so distinct from a “We Shall Overcome” sentimen