Elizabeth: The Golden Age

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Inside Man, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

On the small screen, he received a Primetime Emmy nomination for playing writer Ernest Hemingway in the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn, uh, opposite Nicole Kidman.

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That kind of makes sense, honestly, with the vibe of it.

yeah I'm sort of always surprised when people have seen it it was a fun show although it was a weird show in that we got there and I was very excited to do a Tudor project and I was expecting sort of Elizabeth the Golden Age and you know the costumes from that in my head and then when we got there they were sort of like oh the producers have said because they're American they were like oh they don't want the Tudor rose they don't want red they don't want earrings they don't want hats they don't want bodies which is the Tudor word for corsets so a lot of it there was a lot of back and forth on that job of give and take of showing someone a design and then them saying oh actually we don't want men to have flowers because that's not masculine or that's not the our vision for this and then it was kind of like me saying well I see a portrait of King Edward and he has flowers on his neck so there was a bit of a weird disconnect for me as someone who loves history and primary research okay do you to sample all this embroidery that's designed very in keeping with the iconography and visual language of the period and then to be told oh no it's not the thing there's a lot of give and take with producers with directors um a lot of times the producers and directors are very excited about the period they're working on so they give the costume the lead my lady jane seemed a little bit like there was a bit more give and take than usual okay but it was very fun and it was a great team.

we talked about true crime and we talked about cheese when we talked about true crime too much and sort of weirded each other out.

in fact our group chat that i was on today is all of the crew costume crew from my lady jane the workroom and it is called morbid cheese which is an inside thing so anyone listening who was on that show that's a shout out for you.

I'm going to interject real quick.

If anybody has watched any of the Elizabeth or either of the Elizabeth movies starring the impeccable Cate Blanchett, Sir Walter Raleigh makes an appearance in the second one, Elizabeth the Golden Age.

Well,

let me tell you, he wasn't part of that golden age, all right? And let's pocket that information about being Elizabeth's fave, okay? Okay.

For other Tudor representations on screen, check out the excellent 1960s movie Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Canadian actress Geneviève Bugeaud and film icon Richard Burton as King Henry VIII.

Also, Cate Blanchett successfully took on the role of Queen Elizabeth in two sumptuous major motion pictures, 1998's Elizabeth and 2007's Elizabeth the Golden Age.

The 1986 film Lady Jane, starring a young Helena Bonham Carter as the nine-days Queen Jane Grey of the House of Tudor, the great-granddaughter of King Henry VII and de facto Queen of England, for just over a week in July 1553.

The film co-stars Patrick Stewart just prior to joining the Star Trek franchise.