Anne of Green Gables gets its first black character thanks to Netflix's Anne with an E

The Hollywood Reporter

Canadian actor Dalmar Abuzeid will play the Afro-Caribbean character Sebastian Lacroix on the Netflix drama from Canada's CBC. Creator Moira Walley-Beckett said she wanted her dark reboot of the classic novel to be multicultural. "When I was first conceiving Anne with an E, I was troubled by the lack of diversity in the book, especially since Canada is such a diverse nation, both then and now," she says.