{"id":36602,"date":"2014-06-03T22:46:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36602"},"modified":"2014-06-03T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T22:46:23","slug":"belle-romance-race-and-slavery-with-jane-austen-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36602","title":{"rendered":"‘Belle’: Romance, Race And Slavery With Jane Austen Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Belle’: Romance, Race And Slavery With Jane Austen Style<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

National Public Radio<\/a>
\nTell Me More<\/a>
\n2014-05-29<\/p>\n

Michel Martin<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n

British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw<\/a> was brought up on Jane Austen<\/a> adaptations. “You know, the Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a> with Colin Firth<\/a> and Jennifer Ehle<\/a> was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire<\/a>,” she tells NPR’s Michel Martin.<\/p>\n

But as the biracial actress completed her training at Britain’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts<\/a>, she watched her peers win roles in “the Downton Abbeys<\/em> of this world” and realized those period dramas weren’t calling her. It made Mbatha-Raw ask: “Why can’t I be in something like this?”<\/p>\n

Now she is. Mbatha-Raw plays the title character in Belle<\/em>, a film based on the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle<\/a>, the illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman. When she is a child, Dido’s father entrusts her to his uncle, one of the most powerful men in the country.<\/p>\n

“She goes on this massive journey to become a woman who has the courage to stand up for who she is and what she believes in,” Mbatha-Raw says…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>. Listen to the interview here<\/a> (00:12:53). Read the transcript here<\/a>. Download the audio here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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