Plays iconic British character, hates Brits
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/david-tennant-britishness-in-tv-shows-102625150.html
""In the new BBC Sunday night costume drama, Tennant's Fogg is seen a has-been relying on the help of a black man and a woman, among others, to help him complete his journey and win his wager of £20,000." because white man bad
Too predictable. Don't you love the 2020s?!?
I do not understand what you are saying? So he's playing Fogg not as a stuffy brit, he hates them? Or is it that he thinks that British shows should have more of an international appeal he "hates" Brits?
shareHe's playing a classic English character and sees him as 'problematic' obviously. Then why play him (and get paid well to do so)?
shareNo where does it say that Tennant wrote the screenplay or directed it. So this adaptation would have most likely been this way regardless of who played him. He's probably playing him because he likes this adaptation.
shareWhere did I say that I say he did either?
shareYou didn't say it, you wanted to know why he was playing him after you said that they changed the character, and is getting help from a black man and a woman. So, I'm saying that he doesn't find this version, which he didn't write, or direct, as problematic.
shareI didn't say they changed the character, he found the character, and I quote thus "Phileas Fogg represents everything that’s alarming and peculiar about that old sense of British Empire. Potentially, it’s a story about an England that should elicit very little sympathy.”
so if he thinks Pjileas Fogg is so awful I propose he only takes a role for the sole purpose of making political capital. Which I find typical of the current mindset of the entertainment industry in current times.
Celebrities make me sick. The bigger they get the more offended they become on behalf of the little people.
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