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How ‘The Gilded Age,’ ‘Feud’ and More Period Dramas Walk a Fine Line Between Being Accurate and Offensive With Language
From 'The Gilded Age' to 'Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,' these period dramas managed to balance between accurate and offensive language.
The second season of “Gilded Age” also focuses on Blake Ritson’s Oscar van Rhijn, the wealthy son of Christine Baranski’s old-monied socialite, Agnes; he also happens to be in the closet. Creator J. T. Rogers and the writers researched the type of slang yakuza members would have used at the time, as well as how a white American who learned Japanese in a formal setting (Ansel Elgort’s journalist Jake Adelstein) would sound when speaking it in comparison to one who is self-taught (Rachel Keller’s Samantha Porter). “The New Look” creator Todd A. Kessler had a more complicated problem when making his Apple TV+ series about fashion designers Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) and others in France during and after World War II — French libel and slander laws.
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