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Tamsin Greig clarifies ‘Friday Night Dinner’ casting comments: “It was taken slightly out of context”

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Friday Night Dinner playing a Jewish mother.The actor, who played Jackie Goodman in the Channel 4 sitcom, recently discussed cultural sensitivity today in relation to her character’s Jewish ancestry.“I think, given our sensitivity today about these issues, I probably shouldn’t have been in that show,” Greig told The Telegraph earlier this month.“We are much more conscious today than we were when that show was first aired.”Speaking again on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour earlier today (December 14), Greig explained what she meant by her comments.“I think it was taken slightly out of context,” Greig said. “What I meant by it was, if we were casting it now, we’d have had very, very different conversations about the necessity of casting me in it.

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