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Meet Robin Hood's saviour - Tuck!
Published Wednesday, Mar 25 2009, 20:40 GMT | By Neil Wilkes | 7 comments
Next up in our exclusive series of interviews with the cast of Robin Hood, we're meeting a brand new character. Very important in the traditional tales but hitherto unseen in the BBC version, Friar Brother Tuck arrives at the start of episode one to rescue a down-and-out Robin.
Click play below to watch our chat with David Harewood (he of the excellent Criminal Justice) - and you'll note that he's rather more subdued than in his cameo appearance in yesterday's video!
Add your comments to this entry below!
Click play below to watch our chat with David Harewood (he of the excellent Criminal Justice) - and you'll note that he's rather more subdued than in his cameo appearance in yesterday's video!
Add your comments to this entry below!
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Sylvia, Prague, on March 31st, 2009
Lisa of Leeds, the tales belong to the people who invented them and it is ridiculous to pretend otherwise. Would you agree with white actors being introduced in a, say, Polynesian tale playing some 700 years ago? Or with some Viking -type blond-bearded guy inserted in an Aztec mythical story?
Lisa of Leeds, the tales belong to the people who invented them and it is ridiculous to pretend otherwise. Would you agree with white actors being introduced in a, say, Polynesian tale playing some 700 years ago? Or with some Viking -type blond-bearded guy inserted in an Aztec mythical story?
Karl Marx jr. , on March 30th, 2009
I think it is racist! What about the Aymara, Pakistanis or Eskimos? They are regularly discriminated in English and Hollywood historical movies. I was almost shocked, when I didn't see a Nigerian playing Edward I. in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. What a great movie it could have been! And Robert Bruce should have been performed by some Pygmy actor! Or, even better, by an Australian Aborigine. What a cultural loss for British and American cinema!!!
I think it is racist! What about the Aymara, Pakistanis or Eskimos? They are regularly discriminated in English and Hollywood historical movies. I was almost shocked, when I didn't see a Nigerian playing Edward I. in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. What a great movie it could have been! And Robert Bruce should have been performed by some Pygmy actor! Or, even better, by an Australian Aborigine. What a cultural loss for British and American cinema!!!
Jen, Scotland, on March 26th, 2009
Can we see the next video please???
Can we see the next video please???
Lisa, Leeds, on March 26th, 2009
Steve - you do know that Robin Hood was a fictional character. That means that nothing is "right". I love David Harewood and think he will be a great Tuck. But if you can't see past his colour...
Steve - you do know that Robin Hood was a fictional character. That means that nothing is "right". I love David Harewood and think he will be a great Tuck. But if you can't see past his colour...
Grace, Scotland, on March 25th, 2009
It's something the BBC have been doing called 'colour-blind' casting. Going for the best person for the role rather than just going on skin coulour for the sake of 'historical accuracy'
It's something the BBC have been doing called 'colour-blind' casting. Going for the best person for the role rather than just going on skin coulour for the sake of 'historical accuracy'
Steve, Warrington, on March 25th, 2009
Nothing like the Political Correct BBC to have a BLACK Friar, oppssss, sorry Brother Tuck. Another nail in the Robin Hood coffin.
Nothing like the Political Correct BBC to have a BLACK Friar, oppssss, sorry Brother Tuck. Another nail in the Robin Hood coffin.
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Most tales whether fictional or otherwise will tend to reflect the fashions of the time but Lisa of Leeds saying that nothing is "right" doesn't mean that anything goes. Robin Hood is a traditional story based in a certain historical time so even with poetic licence you can'y stray too far from certain themes, characters etc. without it looking just plain stupid. Having a black "Brother Tuck" (and all the other "right on" contrivances) spoils it for me as much as seeing Robin Hood for instance using a mobile - it just doesn't make sense for the time.