The three-part production, which premiered earlier this week, revisits the final days of Anne’s life from her own perspective, framing the intrigues of Tudor court as a psychological thriller rather than a historically accurate period drama. The racist overtones of this outcry weren’t lost on Turner-Smith, who tells Glamour’s Abigail Blackburn that she knew “it would be something that people felt very passionately about, either in a positive or a negative way, because Anne is a human in history who people feel very strongly about.” As the actress adds, she responded to the criticism by focusing on the story she and the series’ creators wanted to tell-a “human story” of Anne as a mother. When British broadcaster Channel 5 announced the cast of its “ Anne Boleyn” miniseries last October, the show’s eponymous star-Black actress Jodie Turner-Smith-faced immediate backlash from critics who objected to a woman of color portraying the white Tudor queen. “But you have to remember that it’s not a historical reconstruction: it’s a thriller it’s a drama it’s entertainment.” “We have these iconic figures from history and literature, who people feel possessive about in some way,” says scholar Miranda Kaufman, author of Black Tudors: The Untold Story.
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