{"id":30753,"date":"2019-12-02T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T10:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30753"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T10:50:36","slug":"dev-patel-addresses-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/02\/dev-patel-addresses-new-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Patel Addresses New Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Slumdog millionaire star Dev Patel has said the film industry is at the &#8220;beginning of a movement&#8221; in colour-blind casting<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The star of Armando Iannucci&#8217;s film The Personal History Of David Copperfield said he was not bored of the conversation about representation, and that &#8220;wonderful things&#8221; were happening.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) in London where the film was nominated in 11 categories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s at the beginning of a movement, if you can call it that. You have got to talk about it to get some momentum, so it&#8217;s cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The movie is based on the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield and is a retelling of the classic book using colour-blind casting, the practice of casting without considering the actor&#8217;s ethnicity or gender.<\/p>\n<p>Patel said Iannucci had made the story accessible to &#8220;kids&#8221; like himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I totally missed this literary classic growing up. It didn&#8217;t appeal to me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slumdog millionaire star Dev Patel has said the film industry is at the &#8220;beginning of a movement&#8221; in colour-blind casting. The star of Armando Iannucci&#8217;s film The Personal History Of David Copperfield said he was not bored of the conversation about representation, and that &#8220;wonderful things&#8221; were happening. Speaking at the British Independent Film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401,106,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-film","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}