10/6/2023 0 Comments Jasper tudor white princess![]() He sat in a hotel room for four days waiting to find out if he had the part. We flew him to London about 24 hours after he had done his tape, and he was totally shell-shocked. And Jacob, who’s Australian, had hardly done anything before. “Jacob did a self-tape which I saw first and was excited about-he understood the scenes, even out of context, and he was wonderful. And he has, hopefully, a resemblance to King Henry VII. He has to be somebody we can fall in love with as we move through the show. At the beginning of the series, the character is not very likeable, and we needed an actor who could embody this soulful intelligence so you could buy that he was being manipulated by his mother and acts out of naiveté and fear. We needed someone with the right qualities. We must’ve seen 300 people in the end, and we had self-tapes coming in from all over the world. ![]() “As for Jacob, we did a huge trawl to try to cast Henry. And what’s also fantastic is that Jodie and Essie have these beautiful heart-shaped faces and look like they’re related. “Essie is obviously a well-known actress as well, and we wanted somebody who resembled Rebecca Ferguson in the STARZ series The White Queen. Michelle felt very connected to her character. We were very lucky in that she-and in fact, all the actors-fell in love with the script. “Similarly with Michelle, who we talked about from the very beginning.’ It was actually Karen Bailey, for STARZ, who said, ‘Michelle has to play Margaret Beaufort. It was important for me and the producers. ![]() So we included people of color in crowd scenes and one speaking role. “In terms of reclaiming history from the people who were usually excluded from it…when I was writing and researching this, I asked a historical adviser, ‘What would be the situation of people of color in Tudor England?’ and was told there wouldn’t be any at all-it would be an ‘absolute anachronism.’ I got my team to dig and dig and dig, and we found recently researched books that revealed there was a presence of people of color throughout British history. It’s a very high-stakes, operatic drama-the stories are about life, death, betrayal, murder, wars. What would these women have felt? What were their options? And of course I have one eye on history and one eye on what our audience would be engaged and excited by, and what kind of female struggles we identify with. You can join the dots and base it on your own human experience. The reality is that there’s very little detail about their lives because nobody really recorded it-but that’s liberating. She’s first and foremost a historian, so she has done the research on who these characters were. “And Philippa does a fantastic job of digging into all of this.
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