But as the creators of Starz’s “The Spanish Princess” discovered, the answer isn’t to invent diversity — it’s to resist overlooking it. In telling the story of Catherine of Aragon as a young woman, they made a point of bringing people of colour out of historical obscurity and into focus. That created a role and a challenge for British actress Stephanie Levi-John, 30, who is of African-Caribbean descent. Levi-John: I grew up in the ’90s, early 2000s, and we had “Sister, Sister,” we had “The Fresh Prince of Bel- Air.” So I was seeing examples of people of colour on TV, but it was, “They’re American. I did not want to make her a caricature, I wanted to make her as human as possible.

Source: National Post May 02, 2019 17:15 UTC