The Jamie Lloyd Company has hit back after its production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” has been the subject of what they call a “barrage of deplorable racial abuse” aimed at an unnamed cast member.
The play, directed by Jamie Lloyd (“Sunset Boulevard”), stars “Spider-Man: No Way Home” star Tom Holland as Romeo and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers (“Sex Education”) as Juliet.
On Friday, the Jamie Lloyd Company issued a statement, saying: “Following the announcement of our ‘Romeo & Juliet’ cast, there has been a barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company. This must stop.”
It’s hundreds of years old. We haven’t had a big “remake” (it’s an adaptation, since it was a play originally) since the Leo version decades ago.
Gnomeo and Juliet changed a name and they weren’t even human!
Disgusting. Giving roles to other species is taking work away from homo sapiens.
Warm Bodies did it and Romeo was dead the entire time!
It was reverse because he came back from the dead!
And mercutio was the best part of that.