onehopefuldreamer:

“I didn’t want to be in another period show that was covering the same old ground,” says Olivia Williams, who stars as snooty Lady Hamilton.
“I didn’t want to stand round talking about, ‘You can’t marry him, his
uncle is a butcher.’ I wanted to be in something dynamic.”

She adds: “The fact is, London was a diverse place in the war. That
was one of the big changes that everyone had to accept is that our vast
empire and the dregs of it meant that people from all over the world
were pulled into it and came and fought on our behalf, and many of them
passed through London and have remained largely unacknowledged for their
contribution.”

“I just thought it was a new angle I hadn’t seen. Where it accepted that there were different people in London even then.”

Racial diversity in ITV’s The Halcyon is not just “politically correct TV” – it’s historically accurate