Tag: Howard Charles

  • Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers? The Guardian 2014-01-28 Stuart Jeffries, Feature Writer and Columnist Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash Studs in leather? Check. Swordplay? Check. Buckled swash? Check. Medieval cleavages? Check. Over-complicated…