The Red Wedding year 2020 was cruel for the majority of the population all over the world. People starved, fought and died because of the tragedies that struck in the wretched year. One of such injustices sparked the Black Lives Matter protest. Since then more and more celebrities have opened up about the issue. Game of Thrones’ Indira Varma stars in the legal drama For Life. She talked about a particular episode of the show that circulated around the protests in an interview with ABC audio.
Varma, who plays Safiya, said the episode showed some real-life dilemmas that people face when supporting BLM. “So I went on one of the Black Lives Matter protests in London, but I didn’t bring my daughter because of COVID,” Varma revealed. “So it was these difficult dilemmas… you will see… within the storyline as well.”
“Because what does one do?” she asked. “You know, we feel very strongly about something [but] – how far are we prepared to go?”
Her co-star and the show’s lead, Nicholas Pinnock, who plays Aron, said, “It had to be dealt with very, very carefully and I believe everybody from the writers, to the producers, to the cast, the crew – really stopped, listened, and then took it carefully. Because there were some, very challenging moments throughout the story that caused tears, that caused gasps and reactions, that caused a lot of hurt. That involved triggering memories for some of us.”
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