It’s a neutral-neutral racial positioning in an era of “representation matters,” in which feeling seen is only connected with aesthetics
Photo: Netflix “Do you even know all the ways a lady can be seduced? The things I could teach you.” This line, delivered by Anthony Bridgerton to his love interest, Kate Sharma, has in recent days sent almost every woman I knew into an absolute tizzy.
Bridgerton showrunner Chris Van Dusen maintains that it is more than that, positioning his characters of color as “color conscious,” which he defines “acknowledge[ing] the dimensions that race can bring to a story, and in most cases, embrac[ing] them.” Or, as Black actress Kathryn Drysdale, who plays Madame Delacroix on the show, told the Telegraph: “We’re not playing white or colorless characters. I am definitely playing a mixed-raced modiste.
But it’s not, not really, especially since choices like these result in stereotypical pitfalls. Take, for example, season one’s Duke of Hastings, played by Black actor Regé-Jean Page. Hastings’s intentional lack of cultural specificity made it so that his persona as a cad devolved into a simple trope.
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