 TV show. It was interesting. A TV show and I kept a Brinkton Brighton Brinkton something like that on I think it's on Netflix. It's a it's a bit of a silly romance show set in an alternative kind of history of 1813 London. And it's romance and you know Bridgeton Bridgeton thank you Bridgeton and it's it's it's mostly silly and it's not a series I'm gonna recommend but what I found really intriguing about it and actually really liked it is that they basically cast black actors and white actors and it didn't like there wasn't black roles and white roles. The black people weren't representing black people and white people weren't representing white people they were just representing people. They were all you know that the show is about aristocrats. So all aristocrats of course in those days they don't know black aristocrats but they were so here they're black aristocrats but they're not viewed as black aristocrats. Oh that's weird. They're just aristocrats. There's no issue with in a marriage there's no issue with anything other than the stupid hierarchy of classes in British society but a complete colorblindness now they had a kind of explain this they had a stupid explanation for it something about the king marrying falling in love with a black woman and making it queen and therefore now it's a colorblind society but that doesn't make any sense because they're families that have like the dukes that have long history that are all black going back way back into history in this thing right it's a historical bit so what it's fiction it's an alternative history but the beauty of it is you don't care what difference does it make the actors are acting a particular type it's alternative history historical fiction but why should historical fiction be focused on the color of people's skin why shouldn't historical fiction be focused on the character the culture that's what historical fiction should be about I mean why shouldn't James Bond I mean I'd love to see address all address over his name play James Bond I think it'd be a great James Bond but the whole idea of the color of somebody's skin is you relevant it's unimportant it doesn't matter it doesn't matter you're writing fiction and you're changing history that's what often happens in historical fiction and you're making race irrelevant and choosing to focus on the romance and it's completely appropriate and I found it quite charming and and refreshing and cool so the ideal Idris Elba thank you Idris Elba is he's I really like him as an actor I could discover Idris Elba in in the wire he played one of the one of the drug dealers he played the one who who goes to business school because he wants to run it like a real business so he goes to business school at night to study up to figure out how to run the drug business as a real business but he's a really good actor then he did he's got a kind of a really really really dark cop show in the UK Luther it's called Luther highly recommended but very violent very dark very upsetting but he's brilliant in it so he's he's been one of my favorite actors since I saw him in the wire and and I think he's got that charm and that presence that would make a good James Bond although he's getting now he's getting older it might might not be appropriate so the ideal the goal before I get to that it's an interesting question if you made a movie about slavery would you cast white people slaves maybe so it depends on what the purpose of the movie was and whether I wanted to focus on the fact that slaves were black but even historically slaves have been white I mean Spartacus is a good example of a white slave so if you were doing a movie about slavery in America in the 19th century no you would make them black because part of the issue of slavery was that they were black but they but the issue of romance in the court of King George in the eight early 1800s and the relationships between people and how they played out and the hierarchy between Dukes and whatever the other hierarchy the other people within the the hierarchy of aristocracy is has no relevance race has no relevance to that story now you could make a movie about 1813 where race is very important for example about you know slave trade or about anything that related to to the conflict between white and black or the conflict around race but if you're making a movie about where the theme the topic everything is about something unrelated to race where race is irrelevant then race is irrelevant it's about the romance even if at the time race was relevant that's not what you're dealing within this movie what we need today what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's cult of 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