At BFI London film festival event,actor David Oyelowo says people of colour occupy been ‘expunged from Britain’s history’nearly 60% of British films made in the past 10 years featured no named black characters, and just 13% cast a black actor in a leading role, and research by the British Film Institute has found.
A study of 1172 UK films found that just 15 black actors,five of them women, had played more than one leading role in the past decade.
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Source: theguardian.com