No, Anne Boleyn Was Not Black.

If whitewashing is okay, so is black Anne Boleyn, but I wish they’d ordered her necklace off Amazon

Left: Jodie Turner Smith as Anne Boleyn, photo from The Mirror // Right: Anne Boleyn Official Portrait from Wikipedia

Whitewashing has always been a thing in Hollywood. If you didn’t know, it means “to alter in a way that favors, features, or caters to white people: such as … casting a white performer in a role based on a nonwhite person or fictional character”