{"id":17596,"date":"2011-10-28T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T18:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:57:19","slug":"wuthering-heights-realises-brontes-vision-with-its-dark-skinned-heathcliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17596","title":{"rendered":"Wuthering Heights realises Bront\u00eb’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wuthering Heights realises Bront\u00eb’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\nFilm Blog<\/a>
\n2011-10-21<\/p>\n

Tola Onanuga<\/a><\/strong>, Freelance Subeditor and Writer<\/p>\n

At last, Andrea Arnold<\/a> has bucked the trend of casting white actors in the role of Emily Bront\u00eb’s ‘gypsy’ foundling hero<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrea Arnold’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb’s<\/a> classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights<\/a><\/em>, will see, for the first time, the character of Heathcliff played on screen by a mixed race actor.<\/p>\n

The casting of unknown actor James Howson<\/a>, who is in his early 20s and from Leeds, shouldn’t be surprising given that Heathcliff was described in the original book as a “dark-skinned gypsy” and “a little lascar<\/a>“\u2014a 19th-century term for Indian sailors. Among the many screen adaptations of Wuthering Heights<\/em>\u2014which include musicals, TV serials, a Mexican version directed by Luis Bu\u00f1uel and an ill-conceived teen romcom<\/a> produced by MTV\u2014a dark-skinned actor has never been given the role.<\/p>\n

Even though Bront\u00eb passed away in 1848, one can easily imagine the writer turning in her grave at the prospect of so many white actors portraying her “little lascar” throughout history. As any Briton who’s ever watched an American war film knows, it’s common practice for history to be rewritten during the film-making process, with writers often pushing the boundaries of artistic licence to its very limits…<\/p>\n

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Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wuthering Heights realises Bront\u00eb’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff The Guardian Film Blog 2011-10-21 Tola Onanuga, Freelance Subeditor and Writer At last, Andrea Arnold has bucked the trend of casting white actors in the role of Emily Bront\u00eb’s ‘gypsy’ foundling hero Andrea Arnold’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, will see, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1196,8,10],"tags":[8090,8091,8092,2103,8089],"class_list":["post-17596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-andrea-arnold","tag-emily-bronte","tag-james-howson","tag-the-guardian","tag-tola-onanuga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51707,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions\/51707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}