Becoming Elizabeth (Starz)

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Starz has rounded out its cast for Becoming Elizabeth, its eight-episode drama series chronicling the early years of Queen Elizabeth I. Romola Garai (The Hour), Jessica Raine (The Informer), Tom Cullen (Weekend) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) are among 14 cast members joining Alicia von Rittberg in the Lionsgate-owned Starz series from UK producer The Forge. The series is produced for Starz by The Forge.

Created by playwright Anya Reiss, Becoming Elizabeth centers on young Elizabeth Tudor (Rittberg), an orphaned teenager who becomes embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court on her journey to secure the crown. The death of King Henry VIII sets into motion a dangerous scramble for power. His surviving children find themselves pawns in a game between the great families of England and the powers of Europe who vie for control of the country.

Garai is Mary, Henry’s eldest child, daughter of his first wife, the Spanish princess herself, Catherine of Aragon. Mary is equally devoted to her God and her little brother the King and it cleaves her in two that her twin devotions are entirely incompatible. For if she honours one, she dishonours the other.

Raine portrays Catherine Parr, Henry’s widow, a clever, educated woman, who played the part of Regent once during Henry’s illness and bitterly resents that she is not able to play it again. As the young King ascends to the throne, Catherine is left on the sidelines, but is at last free to pursue her former lover, the King’s uncle Thomas Seymour.

Cullen plays Thomas Seymour. Simultaneously charming, playful and funny whilst being hotheaded, ambitious and possibly dangerous, Thomas Seymour expects the spoils that ought naturally to fall to the King’s uncle. His ambitions are ruined by the machinations of his older brother Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset who quickly seizes the position of Lord protector to the new boy king. He marries his former lover the dowager Queen Catherine for both power and love but then his eye falls on the teenage Elizabeth and a whole new pathway to power opens up in front of him.

John Heffernan (The Pursuit of Love) plays Duke of Somerset. Quick off the block when the old King dies, Somerset loses no time in claiming the position of Lord Protector for himself. He is to all intents and purposes the de facto monarch during Edward’s childhood and teenage years. Humorless and ruthless he is the opposite of his younger brother Thomas.

Jamie Parker (1917) is John Dudley, Somerset’s right-hand man on the Privy Council, his fixer and enforcer and oldest friend. A family man, seemingly the friendlier face of the pair but then a darker side begins to emerge.

Jamie Blackley (Greed) portrays Robert Dudley, John Dudley’s eldest and favourite son, and Elizabeth’s friend from childhood. Working as the king’s groom, from being enamoured with court life he slowly starts to realize quite how dangerous a world he has been born into.

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Il me semblait que l'on en avait parlé, mais impossible de retrouver un topic

Pas de date de sortie encore, elle est annoncée pour 2022, mais une petite vidéo promotionnelle.

Le sujet et l'intrigue me tentent beaucoup, dommage que ce soit Starz

Je trouve qu'ils ont fait des progrès avec The white Princess.

Le casting me tente quand même beaucoup (à part le gars qui dit ça permet d'apprendre sur une des périodes méconnues de l'histoire )

Cela peut être intéressant, le cating est prometteur.

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Garai is Mary, Henry’s eldest child, daughter of his first wife, the Spanish princess herself, Catherine of Aragon. Mary is equally devoted to her God and her little brother the King and it cleaves her in two that her twin devotions are entirely incompatible. For if she honours one, she dishonours the other.

Et on ne voit pas assez souvent Romola Garaï qui est une actrice très talentueuse. Je suis intéressée par son interprétation de Mary.

@Sandie

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dommage que ce soit Starz

Oui

Shelbylee a écrit:

Je trouve qu'ils ont fait des progrès avec The white Princess.

J'ai préféré The White queen, mais tu as raison The White princess tient quand même mieux la route que Reign

Diana a écrit:

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Garai is Mary, Henry’s eldest child, daughter of his first wife, the Spanish princess herself, Catherine of Aragon. Mary is equally devoted to her God and her little brother the King and it cleaves her in two that her twin devotions are entirely incompatible. For if she honours one, she dishonours the other.

Et on ne voit pas assez souvent Romola Garaï qui est une actrice très talentueuse. Je suis intéressée par son interprétation de Mary.

Oui, je le regrette aussi : c'est une de mes actrices préférées et c'est vraiment dommage qu'on ne la voie quasiment plus depuis quelques années...

La série sera disponible le 12 juin

Quelle bonne nouvelle, merci Shelbylee !

Je la regarderai certainement, d’autant que certains personnages font partie des romans de CJ Samson que j’ai vraiment lu avec intérêt assez récemment.

Merci pour l'info !

Quelqu'un a essayé ?

Je suis en train de lire Lady Elizabeth d'Alison Weir (qui n'est pas la source, mais ça se passe à la même période, soit la jeunesse d'Elizabeth) et je m'y attaquerai ensuite.