WOLF HALL Damian Lewis Behind the Scenes season 2 interview 2024

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  • Опубліковано 11 гру 2024

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  • @mayaluna11
    @mayaluna11 Місяць тому +63

    I had lost hope, but it's back. Damien Lewis and Mark Rylance light every scene on fire. RIP to Hillary Mantel, her brilliance will live on.

  • @belbrighton6479
    @belbrighton6479 Місяць тому +37

    I loved Wolf Hall and Damien Lewis. 🎉 so pleased it is coming back.

  • @alexmakar7968
    @alexmakar7968 Місяць тому +60

    Finallllyyyy. Was never sure if season 2 was gonna happen. RIP Hilary x

    • @dlxmarks
      @dlxmarks Місяць тому +4

      Perhaps they had to wait until Lewis' native accent recovered after playing an American character for so many years. 😃

    • @macsmiffy2197
      @macsmiffy2197 24 дні тому +3

      I think they wanted to make all the major cast members were available for filming. It’s not easy when you have big international stars and multiple tv networks making dramas. I’m really looking forward to it too.

    • @chrisbanks6659
      @chrisbanks6659 9 годин тому

      @@dlxmarks Or wait until he'd turned into an African to portray the character realistically. 😒

  • @malfairplay3795
    @malfairplay3795 7 днів тому +3

    Damian Lewis is brilliant playing Henry, Wolf Hall is excellent and I can just imagine the reaction from around the world, it doesn’t get any better than this.

  • @Antoineduval159
    @Antoineduval159 16 днів тому +7

    I saw Damian last night really really lose his temper in the role of Henry VIII.... wow he scared the living daylights out of me... what an actor, a nice guy as he is, frighten the life out of me in my living room. What an actor

  • @TheTudorChest
    @TheTudorChest Місяць тому +105

    So excited about this, however, there are a couple of errors Damien Lewis makes here. Firstly, it was actually Richard II who introduced the "Majesty" title, secondly, Henry VIII did not marry Jane Seymour on the same day that Anne Boleyn was beheaded, their marriage took place eleven days later.

    • @katewhitelaw9182
      @katewhitelaw9182 Місяць тому +4

      ....... nobody but You, cares, Captain Desperate To Be Included.

    • @TheTudorChest
      @TheTudorChest Місяць тому +27

      @ well aren’t you charming.

    • @HeeBeeGeeBee392
      @HeeBeeGeeBee392 Місяць тому +5

      That's a bit disappointing given Lewis's Eton education. Hopefully, the on-set historian could set him straight. However, small deviations from historical accuracy are to be expected. Major ones, such as deleting one of Henry's sisters entirely as was done in The Tudors, could change history entirely, although I guess Mary was less important than Margaret in that regard. Edmund was not mentioned, having died in childhood. Arthur, although not featured, was mentioned as his death was pivotal to the unfolding of events, of course.

    • @queensarah9183
      @queensarah9183 Місяць тому +7

      Thank you for saying this omg I hate when people get things wrong!! I thought basic history taught you this stuff ig not

    • @cherrytraveller5915
      @cherrytraveller5915 Місяць тому +3

      @@HeeBeeGeeBee392 that doesn’t mean he has a grasp on history. History is very vast so unless you are actually interested then you wouldn’t know when certain things happen in history

  • @robertstorey7476
    @robertstorey7476 20 днів тому +13

    Its a brilliant series. Spellbinding realism chiefly because of the quality of the books. Hilary Mantel was a genius of the highest order.

  • @m.joanhay522
    @m.joanhay522 18 днів тому +17

    Mark Rylance is the BEST!!

    • @mogomarkas3187
      @mogomarkas3187 12 годин тому

      I don’t know if he’s the best, but for the last 20 years or so I’ve tried to see everything of his that is available online or in the cinema and one of my dreams is to one day see him perform onstage live or at least to run into him by chance and shake his hand, thanking him for all his given to art. A very special individual.

  • @snevs
    @snevs 20 днів тому +7

    Brilliant series.

  • @Min61449
    @Min61449 Місяць тому +30

    Henry didn’t marry Jane on the day of Anne’s execution. He was betrothed to Jane the day after Anne’s death and married her 10 days later.( all bad enough!). Damien is right about Henry being the first monarch to be called “ Majesty”. I can’t wait to see this.

    • @Eratosthenes_276
      @Eratosthenes_276 4 дні тому +1

      The first *English* monarch to routinely go by ‘Your Majesty’.
      He borrowed this from the haughtier King of France and the Holy Roman Emperor to assert his status as one of the grandest monarchs of Europe.

  • @cdonorab
    @cdonorab 24 дні тому +12

    Jane Seymour is not the lowest bred of the wives. She and Anne Boleyn were second cousins. All three non royal wives were still noble and descendants of Edward III.

    • @brontewcat
      @brontewcat 17 днів тому

      She was actually- as Anne and Catherine Howard’s grandfather was a duke, Jane’s father and grandfather were mere knights. Katherine Parr also had a more recent noble lineage.

  • @bobburroughs6241
    @bobburroughs6241 Місяць тому +3

    Love him, never puts a foot wrong.

  • @transvestosaurus878
    @transvestosaurus878 Місяць тому +6

    0:10 Henry VIII was not the first king to be called 'Majesty', that was the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
    2:24 Anne Boleyn was beheaded 19 May, 1536, and Henry married Jane Seymour on the 30 May, 1536.

  • @leonie563
    @leonie563 17 днів тому +2

    Going to enjoy watching this and Billions alternate nights...works

  • @helveticaification
    @helveticaification 3 дні тому +1

    Damien Lewis is a great choice for the most terrifying of all the Henry's. Unfortunately, the effect of his performance on me means I would probably turn and run if I saw him on the street !

  • @Chipoo88
    @Chipoo88 Місяць тому +12

    Henry and Jane did not marry the day Anne was executed but some days later. I believe they were betrothed earlier but not married until til a cooler of weeks later

  • @merisea5564
    @merisea5564 Місяць тому +37

    They HAD an "Accuracy and Authenticity" consultant. Why on earth there seem to be black actresses playing ladies in waiting? Is the consultant colour blind? No-one would accept Tom Cruise playing a role of Martin Luther King. This does not work out either.

    • @renshiwu305
      @renshiwu305 Місяць тому

      It's worse than that: Jane's mother and sister are going to be black.

    • @sparkleypegs8350
      @sparkleypegs8350 Місяць тому +5

      Oh God! Its not for me then. Now I'm sad.

    • @HeeBeeGeeBee392
      @HeeBeeGeeBee392 Місяць тому +12

      Black people were accepted into Tudor society, at court and even permitted to marry white English people, provided they had been baptised. English ship captains of the period would recruit Africans previously enslaved by the Spanish. However, while such things are documented in Elizabeth's reign, I'm not sure they did during Henry's in the 1530s. I know of only one black person at his court, who was a Royal Trumpeter named John Blanke. However, it doesn't seem much of a stretch to imagine that a small number might have held other positions. Remember there were no (successful) English colonies in the Americas before 1607 during the reign of James I. Slavery was theoretically illegal on English "free soil", but this does not appear to have been tested in law until much later.

    • @AmosBunny
      @AmosBunny Місяць тому +1

      Tis, Tis.

    • @BalmforthGG
      @BalmforthGG Місяць тому +4

      In a 1976 production of “King Arthur and Guinevere” at my primary school. I played Sir Gawain. Not only did none of the characters actually exist (and I actually did, I think) but in all likelihood if they did exist, they were almost certainly not 7 years old. The whole thing is a travesty of modern theatre. The more I think about the more it makes me want to set up an isolated Brazilian colony of pure blooded aryan pedants who can get this sort of thing right first time.

  • @the8ctagon
    @the8ctagon 14 днів тому +2

    Great editing.

  • @mymatemartin
    @mymatemartin 13 днів тому +1

    OMG. Only ever seen Damien Lewis in American made drama series sporting a well crafted American accent and figured he must be American.
    Shocked, I say, but pleasently so to discover he's British.

  • @Hasi551
    @Hasi551 Місяць тому +10

    I adore Hillary Mantel❤ so much and am eagerly awaiting the sequel. Can you also see The Mirror and the Light in Germany? Kind Regards, Janette

    • @LJ5-ds1cv
      @LJ5-ds1cv 22 дні тому +1

      BBC iPlayer, if you can get hold of it. The first series is out on CD .

    • @Hasi551
      @Hasi551 22 дні тому +2

      @LJ5-ds1cv Thank you❣ I'm visiting Friends in the UK in December and we'll watch it together then. I'm really looking forward to it. Until then, I'll read the Books again ♥️ Kind Regards, Janette

    • @LJ5-ds1cv
      @LJ5-ds1cv 22 дні тому

      @ It’s worth waiting for 😊

    • @chrisbanks6659
      @chrisbanks6659 9 годин тому

      She'll be turning in her grave at the despicable liberty that the bastard Woke BBC have taken with her her Magnum Opus. It's disgusting. DEI crap. Historically inaccurate. Boycott them.

  • @snevs
    @snevs 20 днів тому +4

    Accuracy and Authenticity man ,er no, not this time,

  • @ChemGirlLiberal
    @ChemGirlLiberal 27 днів тому +5

    Jane was not the lowest bred of the wives of Henry the 8th. Her family was about the same as the Boleyns, with Anne and Jane being second cousins. She wasn't as well educated as Catherine or Anne but she wasn't the lowest. That would likely have been Catherine Howard, who seemed to have had very little education and was the youngest when she married the king. People need to stop understating Jane and her intelligence.

  • @thejeffinvade
    @thejeffinvade 29 днів тому +3

    Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane on 20 May 1536, the day after Anne Boleyn's execution. They were married on 30 May 1536, 11 days after Anne's execution.

  • @dannyoates8969
    @dannyoates8969 Місяць тому +10

    Wolf hall and the mirror and the light are books by Hilary Mantel .she was prearticular
    in being accurate . The casting in this production of the mirror and the light as made
    her efforts a laughing stoke be-cos of the casting of black people in the production
    if she was a live to day she would not let them do this to her masterpiece .

    • @monicabeaston4996
      @monicabeaston4996 8 днів тому

      Don't be too sure. It's been a long time since I saw an " accurate " ancient Greek or Shakespearian drama with authentically all.male actors.

    • @dannyoates8969
      @dannyoates8969 7 днів тому +1

      I never knew that Jane Seymour sister was black

  • @belle-jc8qn
    @belle-jc8qn Місяць тому +3

    Accuracy and Authenticity 😂

    • @mrdemocracy7106
      @mrdemocracy7106 17 днів тому +5

      The casting of black ladies in 1500s high court is ridiculous and a insult to English History.
      The wokeness continues in English history and culture

  • @welshwitch2126
    @welshwitch2126 28 днів тому +3

    Did Damien just say Henry married Jane the same day as he executed “Catherine”?? I could swear he said Catherine and not Anne, before he trailed off in his sentence. Besides that, he did NOT marry Jane on the same day he executed Anne Boleyn.

  • @kiyankurji67
    @kiyankurji67 Місяць тому +5

    Saw the first episode and it was great! Only issue was the black actors that they had every now and then in the background. Luckily they don’t say anything so far.

  • @rebeccagold8678
    @rebeccagold8678 Місяць тому +2

    Henry, in real life, married Jane 10 days after the execution. They got engaged the same day!

  • @Fergus20124
    @Fergus20124 18 днів тому +5

    authentic, why are there black actors in the production then as ladies in-waiting etc.

    • @bine35
      @bine35 16 днів тому +3

      i burst out laughing seeing one at the council

    • @Fergus20124
      @Fergus20124 16 днів тому +2

      @@bine35 if it was this century that was inappropriate laughing at them, 🤣if it was 1500s they wouldn’t be there .

    • @monicabeaston4996
      @monicabeaston4996 8 днів тому

      Because its theater- not a documentary. In Elizabethan times historical females could be played by males as one example. How many Hamlets have been Danish not to mention.Othellos being black Africans during Shakespeare's times.

  • @renshiwu305
    @renshiwu305 Місяць тому +12

    *First _English_ king to be called "Majesty." The Holy Roman Emperor, like Henry VIII's onetime nephew, Charles V, was called majesty prior to Henry adopting the tradition.
    I'd like to know what Hilary Mantel would have to say about the diversity casting of this adaptation of her work. One of her characters (Anne Boleyn) calls Jane Seymour "Pastyface." Jane's mother and sister will be portrayed by blасk women. Surreal.

    • @jamescharnock4579
      @jamescharnock4579 Місяць тому +3

      Thanks for the triga warning, i wont be watching it.

    • @Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co
      @Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co 28 днів тому

      @@jamescharnock4579Because skin pigment is more important than talent. You lot don't even think black people are fully human. You sicken decent people.

    • @sba8710
      @sba8710 17 днів тому

      I don’t think she would object. Why do you assume she would?

    • @renshiwu305
      @renshiwu305 17 днів тому +1

      @@sba8710 Because the producers of this series have produced historical rot.

  • @alexwilliamson1486
    @alexwilliamson1486 14 днів тому +4

    Henry VIII , an utter monster of a man, a dictator and despot.

  • @malcolmabram2957
    @malcolmabram2957 15 днів тому +1

    A challenge is what was Henry VIII really like? There is the excellent 2003 film with Ray Winstone as Henry VIII, but he is rough and laddish not to mention feared. A credible depiction. However here, Damian Lewis portrays a Henry who is regal. What was he really like? I like to think the portrayal in Wolf Hall is the more accurate, but who knows. Both are fine actors.

    • @brontewcat
      @brontewcat День тому

      Yes Henry was regal, and I think Damien's depiction was much more accurate than Ray Winstone's version.
      Henry could lose his temper, but he was fairly refined- which makes him more terrifying.

  • @thugwood4434
    @thugwood4434 15 днів тому +3

    Did the accuracy and authenticity man not notice the black and mixed race actors? Oops! Naughty Woke BBC snuck them in ..

  • @DavidSmith-lu7xv
    @DavidSmith-lu7xv 11 днів тому +1

    Lewis is so so as Henry, could have learned a thing or 3 from Charles Laughtons

  • @AshHanks-nl5bn
    @AshHanks-nl5bn 8 днів тому +2

    My God its such a shame Hilary couldnt be here to see what these marvelous people have made of this TV adaptation, its brilliant. She would of been so proud & her novels are an amazing read, even for a history teacher.
    Do yourselves a favor if you like novels, shes phenomenal.

    • @chrisbanks6659
      @chrisbanks6659 9 годин тому

      She'll be turning in her grave at the despicable liberty that the bastard Woke BBC have taken with her her Magnum Opus. It's disgusting. DEI crap. Historically inaccurate. Boycott them. DON'T pay your licence fee.

  • @historymakesmesleep
    @historymakesmesleep 21 день тому +3

    richard II started MAJESTY not henry 8

  • @mrdemocracy7106
    @mrdemocracy7106 17 днів тому +5

    Noticed while watching there is Still the wokeness inaccuracy of English history by the casting of some black actors which is quite ridiculous in the 1500s England courts😢

    • @bine35
      @bine35 16 днів тому +2

      1500? in the winter king year 500 they made merlin black LOL

    • @JMxx6204
      @JMxx6204 15 днів тому

      People who refer to “wokeness” are idiots.

  • @davidevans3227
    @davidevans3227 Місяць тому +1

    it's like a gangster story 😊

  • @sick9990101
    @sick9990101 10 днів тому

    Damian Lewis plays Henry VIII very well. Only topped by Keith Michell

  • @cerberus6654
    @cerberus6654 18 днів тому +8

    I loved Wolf Hall but I doubt I'll like the second series as it will probably show the Tudor court predictably stuffed with Africans and Chinese.

    • @user-rx2sn4hm2i
      @user-rx2sn4hm2i 14 днів тому +5

      I didn't realise there were so many 'Persons of Colour' In King Henry VIII's court. Hey but what do I know compared to the ever truthful BBC?!

    • @monicabeaston4996
      @monicabeaston4996 8 днів тому

      ???

    • @cerberus6654
      @cerberus6654 8 днів тому +2

      @@monicabeaston4996 Well, if you haven't noticed it, there has been a trend to populate BBC historical dramas with a percentage of actors and extras that do not, in any way reflect the reality of demographics in past eras. Yes, it came about through efforts from 'racialized' minorities and their advocates to overcome obstacles to getting work. But if you are going to produce a film or a series allegedly based in the past, it is ridiculous - at least to me - to portray history as what modern 'woke' or 'politically correct' elements of the intelligentsia would want us to see it. If it's all going to be Game of Thrones, fine. What's next? A series where Horation Nelson is portrayed by a Chinese guy? Or yet another Tudor series with Henry VIII as portayed by Oprah Winfrey? OK, but don't pretend to me for a minute this is some kind of trip into the past.

  • @michaelamos4651
    @michaelamos4651 7 днів тому

    Henry didn't marry Jane Seymour on the day Anne was executed. 11 days later. Brilliant series. Great acting

  • @jilllovesbeegees70
    @jilllovesbeegees70 25 днів тому +1

    Ms Scarlett?

  • @davidmorton504
    @davidmorton504 3 дні тому +2

    Totally ruined by the woke brigade. Saw an interview with the producer claiming that the only thing that wasn't accurate about the films portrayal of 1536 was the use of fake beaver skins instead of real ones. What about all the actors in it of African heritage - guards , lords etc? England in 1536 wasn't a diverse multicultural community. Im sure the woke brigade will condescendingly say my ignorance means I don't understand that anyone of any colour can play any part. So why not have a more diverse range of actors ( transgender,LGBTQ + etc) working in the fields in the film '10 years a slave' or represented amongst the tribesman in the film 'Zulu' ?

    • @chrisbanks6659
      @chrisbanks6659 9 годин тому

      Perhaps one day we can see Tom Cruise portraying MLK. Fcuking ridiculous. BBC Woke crap. Ms Mantell would fly out of her grave, shroud flapping if she could see what they've done. Totally disrespectful. And distasteful. And dishonest. All to fit a failing agenda. I waited 9 years for this crap that I refuse to watch now? No wonder people are refusing to pay the 'License Fee' in their tens of thousands.

  • @gillchambers9008
    @gillchambers9008 21 день тому

    Henry was good looking and athletic when young. the hair colour would be correct.

  • @bine35
    @bine35 16 днів тому +5

    accuracy and authencity, put in some token black people! ridiculous looool

    • @JMxx6204
      @JMxx6204 15 днів тому

      Give it a rest FFS.

    • @bine35
      @bine35 15 днів тому +2

      @@JMxx6204 I wish they did lmao

  • @Tamar_H
    @Tamar_H 18 днів тому +1

    Not correct, Henry didn’t marry Jane Seymour on the day of Anne’s execution.

  • @deliusmyth5063
    @deliusmyth5063 Місяць тому

    What was Peter's jo…?

  • @kathybillings1962
    @kathybillings1962 10 днів тому

    Damien, you have this one wrong. Henry married Jane 11 days after Anne was beheaded. Your Majesty, please don't send me to the Tower for the correction!

  • @anothermintiesplease2021
    @anothermintiesplease2021 Місяць тому +7

    Damian best leave history to the historians, you just act it out, mate

  • @clivejames5058
    @clivejames5058 День тому

    I think Damian Lewis meant to say that Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane Seymour the day after Anne Boleyn's execution. They weren't actually married until the following week. Still .... nasty piece of work.

  • @mickidonahue4038
    @mickidonahue4038 Місяць тому

    Pub quiz facts are forgiven

  • @MrElliotc02
    @MrElliotc02 16 днів тому

    Not until March for the cousins.

  • @sparkleypegs8350
    @sparkleypegs8350 Місяць тому +14

    Hooray. If its "for a modern audience" though, I'm out. I despise DEI in my history dramas.

    • @sparkleypegs8350
      @sparkleypegs8350 Місяць тому

      Not hooray. Shoehorning Africans into Tudor history is rediculous! As soon as I see the "tokens" it takes me right out of the period. I wont be watching something they have turned into virtue signalling slop.

    • @chrisbanks6659
      @chrisbanks6659 9 годин тому

      Damned right.

  • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
    @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf Місяць тому +2

    Henry should be African as he was

    • @TheJohnnybegood1
      @TheJohnnybegood1 20 днів тому +3

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂..

    • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
      @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf 20 днів тому +1

      @@TheJohnnybegood1

    • @2jz-boi
      @2jz-boi 22 години тому

      Henry was a non binary black trans pro palestine neurodivergent

  • @Smartgran
    @Smartgran Місяць тому +1

    Great series in every way. But I don't know how Charlie can call himself Your Highness and expect others to do so. Its time they were all retired. However, I still like historical series, thanks.

  • @JMxx6204
    @JMxx6204 15 днів тому +1

    The op “liking” these ridiculous comments regarding the ethnicity of some of the actors is disgusting.

    • @chrisbanks6659
      @chrisbanks6659 9 годин тому

      Only for the algorithm. Otherwise (insert pronoun) would have an opinion & comment of "its" own. Fricking ridiculous.

  • @LauraW102
    @LauraW102 9 днів тому

    She (Jane) has a sad ending?? Jane got what she deserved. Jane's death was Anne's vengeance.