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The Wire's Clarke Peters hits out at colour-blind casting in factual dramas and argues it would be 'absurd' for Dominic West to play Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
The Wire star Clarke Peters has slammed colour-blind casting in factual dramas, arguing it would be 'absurd' if Dominic West portrayed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries written between 1920 and 1976 had passages reworked or removed in new editions published to strip them of language and descriptions that modern audiences find offensive, especially those involving the characters Christie's protagonists encounter outside the UK. In this latest Agatha Christie's period drama Towards Zero, Peters plays Mr. Treves, a family lawyer who becomes entangled in a chilling mystery when a string of deaths in a quiet English village begins to look less like accidents and more like murder Maisie Richardson-Sellers, a London-born actress of Guyanese heritage, portrays Lady Bess Oughtred, and Egyptian-British actor Amir El-Masry plays poet and politician Thomas Wyatt.
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