Speaking at a digital MIPTV conference, BBC’s Chief Diversity Officer Miranda Wayland suggested that the title character in “Luther,” played by Idris Elba, didn’t “feel authentic” enough as a black character, saying that he didn’t eat “Caribbean food” and had no “black friends.”
“When [Luther] first came out everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there — a really strong, black character lead,” Wayland said, as reported by The Times. “We all fell in love with him. Who didn’t, right? But after you got into about the second series you got kind of like, OK, he doesn’t have any black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic.”
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