Lucy Worsley weighs in at the level of accuracy in Wolf Hall, the six part mini-series adaptation of Hilary Mantels novels and compares it to recent entertaining but not-so-accurate dramas: The nitty-gritty detail of daily life; an area where the rather silly Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ version of The Tudors spectacularly failed. (I laughed out loud when I saw Cardinal Wolsey’s pomander in that show, because it looked like a fruit salad.) The series also contained the famous (and documented) scene in which Catherine Howard tries out the block for size on the night before her execution. Only in The Tudors, though, did she do so naked. Oh, and that series also showed Anne’s coronation, but complete with a fictional assassination attempt. No such historical liberties are taken with Wolf Hall. ‘Bigger things are easier,’ Campbell says, ‘than little things like a completely accurate pen.’ A handful of actors had to be stopped from writing with their left hands, as this was banned at court. ‘It was terrifying at first,’ she (Claire Foy) says. ‘How did they sleep, how did they put their shoes on?’ She (Claire Foy) admits BBC history documentaries such as social historian and re-enactor Ruth Goodman’s Tudor Monastery Farm have been playing in the background of her trailer on a loop.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:06:38 +0000
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