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TV period drama is based on the novel of the same name by Sara Collins.JAMAICAN-BORN, CAYMANIAN-BRITISH novelist and former lawyer Sara Collins says when she was offered the chance to adapt her novel,, for television, she knew “straightaway” that she didn’t want to write “yet another period drama where the only thing that happens to the black characters is slavery”.
She added: “But I also wanted to avoid the sort of colour blind fantasy about interracial romance that seems to be in vogue nowadays – deliciously anachronistic, but occasionally guilty of indulging the audience’s self-serving reasons for pretending slavery never happened at all. Describing the journey, Spence added: “It’s a period drama, set in the 1800s. It’s Frannie’s story and she wants the world to know what she went through from her own account.“She could run into this new world, but where would she go? Frannie is a survivor. She has made difficult decisions in order to survive.
“They assume that Frannie would be subservient, having been a former slave. She is not. Only when it suits her to be. “So when she discovers Madame , it is such a breath of fresh air for her. She has never had a romantic connection with anyone. When she first meets Madame she feels this magnetic attraction, that she doesn’t quite understand.
Delving into the complexity of Frannie, Collins said it was important to ‘convey her passion as an act of defiance against impossible odds’.
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