- Tom Hardy and his father developed the show 'Taboo' for FX, so he literally created this role for himself.
- Tom Hardy cast himself as the biracial main character who is the product of a slave owner raping a slave, his mother. A big plot point in the first three seasons is his "realization that his father did not marry his mother so much as buy her; she was a slave bundled into a property deal".
- Lots of other gross stuff too aside from the white washing. the characters time spent in Africa enables him to "speaks a tribal language...engaged in some kind of cannibalism". He is supposed to practice "“dark magic,” which either capitalize on James’[Hardy's character] mixed-race heritage or his time with “savage” tribes".
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what is wrong with white people
