SEACOLE PERIOD SET MOVIE
FIRST GUGU MBATHA RAW PICS
Two years ago your trusted spy
announced a movie project on a true life story of Mary
SEACOLE, the pioneering Jamaican nurse who became known during the Crimean War for her care of wounded British soldiers, and now we
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The movie should premiere in USA sometime this year
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have the first photos of
Gugu Mbatha Raw in the lead role.
Sam Worthington, Rupert Graves and
Padraic Delaney also star! Seacole’s self-sacrifice on the front lines and fierce, adversarial relationship with Florence Nightingale during the war made her famous in her time.
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The movie was directed by Charlie Stratton
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Spiderman's
Numan Acar will play The Pasha, a high ranking officer in the Turkish army, a lover not a fighter, who helps Mary build her hotel.
Sylvia Hoeks and
Sean Delaney will also star in the film directed by
Charlie Stratton in UK and Romania.
DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON
Seacole was born in 1805 to a free Jamaican woman and a Scottish
officer. She followed in her mother's footsteps and became a nurse
versed in traditional Caribbean and African herbal remedies. When the
Crimean War
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Gugu Mbatha Raw returns to costume drama after Belle
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broke out, she applied to be a nurse for the British
government, but her request was denied. She paid her own passage to the
Crimean Peninsula and set up a hotel for soldiers.
Wow.... the costume designer should be given some award. Wonderfully done.
ReplyDeleteNursing was (and is) a noble profession.
I did not expect,before I saw the pics,that she would be wearing feminine crinolines, I must admit.
DeleteI'm getting more and more into period pieces, and this sounds like a goodie! Hugs, RO
ReplyDeleteIt comes with age LOL Although I was always a great escapist, so no wonder I own world's leading site on all things epic, period set and fantasy.
DeleteThis looks really interesting!
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DeleteThis one looks great! I would definitely go out of my way to see it. Actually, I’m about to go on a search engine spree to learn more about the topic. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about the Crimea war, but I think we wouldn't be on the same side LOL as I'd support the Russians :) It was when the West allied against sweet mother Russia who wanted to stop the bloodthirsty Turks and invade the sultan's lands. If they succeeded and conquered the sultan we would've had a massive Slav empire and Catherine would've put her younger grandson as the emperor of the new Eastern Holy Roman Empire which would rid us of Turks who butchered my country for centuries. But Brits and the French wouldn't allow it as that would make Russia the biggest and unbeatable power so they declared war against Catherine, evil bastards. That left us, poor little Serbs, and many other nations at The Balkans, to suffer under Turks for few more centuries. Brits did not give a damn that fellow Christians are being enslaved, killed and raped by the Ottomans they were supporting, pompous cunts.
DeleteTold no and still managed to do something grand with herself. What an inspiring lady.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why was she in war with Florence Nightingale.
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