Speaking out: Director Joe Wright at the Film Independent Screening of “Cyrano” in Los Angeles, California
(Picture: Getty Images)DIRECTOR Joe Wright has revealed that the BBC blocked his attempt to cast Sophie Okonedo as Charles II’s mistress in the 2003 period drama The Last King.
Wright says he was by executives that “the BBC or the BBC1 audience weren’t ready for that”. Yet the BBC marketed the show by celebrating the period’s “contemporary resonance” and writer Adrian Hodges pointed out that he had “taken certain liberties” because he is “a dramatic writer, not a historian”.
