A movie review - Wicked Little Letters
A movie of anachronisitic and inauthentic casting.
This didn't have to be such a bad movie. The basics are there.
According to google the first black judge in the UK was 2004. Yet the judge in this movie set in the 1920s, all 3 seconds of him, is black. Black and south asian (if even from Africa) immigration didn't happen until the 1950s at the earliest yet the policewoman (she is good in the role but...) is South Asian, Rose's boyfriend is black and two of Rose's friends (out of 4) are also Windrush which is very anachronistic. And maybe not even that as Littlehampton, Sussex is possibly not even that diverse now in 2024 (I have not been there for a long time). There is nothing wrong with these actors of course, some of them are pretty good at their craft, but casting them in 1920s Littlehampton is wrong. Maybe, just maybe, Thea of Africa might have been able to cast the boyfriend of the Irish Rose as black or even one of the friends as black. But to cast so many as black in a town that would have been pretty cl…
