The second Hollow Crown trilogy turned out to be as awesome as the first. I might have to binge watch the complete six episodes. Benedict Cumberbatch plays his best monster since that great big dragon with the name no-one pronounced correctly, and would easily be a show stealer... except that there's also Judi Dench (no-one messes with Judi Dench) and whoever plays Margaret of Anjou is equally intimidating. And I'm pretty confident that the death rate exceeds even Game of Thrones. Well, GoT was based on the Wars of the Roses, after all.
I will admit to some trepidation over the choice of Margaret of Anjou because... well, the real Margaret wasn't black. Just as the extremely skinny Jonathan Rhys Meyers was an odd choice to play Henry VIII in The Tudors. But then I remembered that Shakespeare wasn't writing a historical documentary anyway, and if the actress wants to play the part I'd be hard pressed to say no. And a jolly good thing too, because she owns that role completely - a far more monstrous figure than Lady Macbeth.
That said, I will not countenance the choice of a northern English actress to play Joan of Arc with full northern accent. That's just wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJf-bVNxpY
No comments:
Post a Comment
Due to a small but consistent influx of spam, comments will now be checked before publishing. Only egregious spam/illegal/racist crap will be disapproved, everything else will be published.