why is every single background character in rome brown?

S2 sucks

Many Germanic and Iberian slaves were in the Roman Republic. Wogs only recently attained fair skin as form of parasitic mimicry in the Age of Sail.

>>212882445 (OP)
It was shot in Cinecittà Studios in Rome, and all the extras were italian.

>>212882505
why do british people call themselves the only whites when half of them look like this

>>212882585
some of them are literally black africans

also the scene where vorenus says that he has a "gallic complexion" about him while everybody just ignores that he looks like a family member to octavian
ok so i guess we're just gonna sweep that one under the rug

>>212882445 (OP)
Be ause Italians are brown

>>212883634
well they are from southern italy.