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9:49 pm - 02/01/2013

Natalie Dormer Opens Up About The Tudors & Anne Boleyn in New Book

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Natalie Dormer has personally opened up about her time filming The Tudors and her struggle to ensure Anne Boleyn had a respectful interpretation in Susan Bordo's new book The Creation of Anne Boleyn (to be released April 9th).

The Game of Thrones actress gets candid about the Showtime series, her fight to guarantee The Tudors' interpretation didn't veer into caricature, and how important it was to portray the character from a feminist standpoint.

Excerpts of her discussion with Bordo:

( Natalie discusses hair color, her personal mission to educate the audience of Anne Boleyn's legacy and becoming a role model for womenCollapse )


Source, excerpts come from the book The Creation of Anne Boleyn.

This was great interview. I really respect Natalie for refusing to let this portrayal of Anne Boleyn be one-dimensional.
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little_vienna 2nd-Feb-2013 04:23 am (UTC)
Poor Natalie. Her interview reminds me of a blog by an actress who was cast as Marie Antoinette in a small theater play... she was incredibly interested in the real Marie Antoinette but had to deal with playing her within the limits of a role, which portrayed Marie Antoinette as a bubbly dumb party girl who flaunted an affair and hated her husband. But good for her on speaking up when she could.

On that note, this book sounds REALLY interesting...
silentsymphonie 2nd-Feb-2013 04:44 am (UTC)
I've been reading this biography of Marie-Antionette's daughter, but they cover a lot about the queen herself, and from what I've gleaned she really loved her husband a lot.
little_vienna 2nd-Feb-2013 04:51 am (UTC)
Is it the Nagel biography?

I think they really grew to love each other and it's a shame that a lot of media (especially American portrayals) would rather throw in Axel Fersen and drum up a load of BS about him being her ~true love~ or her ~exciting romance~ while ignoring the evidence of the love between Louis & his wife. I can't remember the exact quote, but Antoinette once wrote to her mother saying something like "If I had the ability to choose between the three brothers, I am convinced I would still choose the one providence gave me." And that was when she was still young and they had not yet grown as a family with children.
hammersxstrings 2nd-Feb-2013 04:31 am (UTC)
this is awesome. i love that she took it so seriously
soavantgarde 2nd-Feb-2013 04:35 am (UTC)
this made me stan for natalie, wow. I feel so bad for her that she had to deal with all that bullshit just to get her character to be portrayed in a multidimensional way.

I only got about 4 episodes in with the tudors before I stopped, everyone looks the same to me lol.
mistycreed 2nd-Feb-2013 04:36 am (UTC)
PRE-ORDERING IT NOW
hammersxstrings 2nd-Feb-2013 04:36 am (UTC)
ot, but since this thread is so full of history nerds, has anyone read up on them thinking they found the body of Richard III?
stuckmodebabe 2nd-Feb-2013 04:43 am (UTC)
YES. I'm actually really looking forward to the announcement on the 3rd. My Tudor professor sent all of us who were in her class last semester an e-mail about it and I had a history nerd flail.
kurtvonnegut 2nd-Feb-2013 04:43 am (UTC)
i never realized they didn't have it. i thought henry vii displayed it in london for like a month?
megalixer 2nd-Feb-2013 04:54 am (UTC)
Henry VII displayed it in Leicester for a few days and then they know that Richard was buried in a church called Greyfriars, which was demolished in the 1500s and was built over, so the location was lost to time for a while. But they found cloister walls in the same area as they found the body that's allegedly Richard's, so that's consistent at least.
megalixer 2nd-Feb-2013 04:47 am (UTC)
yesss. omg, I'm so excited and I hope it's really him! I read that a ~source~ close to the project claimed that they'd already identified it as him but were waiting to hold a press conference but it was from the Daily Mail so take that with a grain of salt obvs.

I honestly could give less fucks about the Tudors, I'm all about the Plantagenets /medieval studies-focusing history major

But really, the War of the Roses deserves a TV show. I would prefer gritty and historical but if they want to make it a soap opera I guess that's alright by me too lol
little_vienna 2nd-Feb-2013 04:53 am (UTC)
I'm excited to see what the results are!! I love that history finds are happening in my lifetime...

Also OT, but did anyone else read about the blood of Louis XVI being found in a gourd? Amazing but also creepy.
fairchilds 2nd-Feb-2013 04:38 am (UTC)
I've read this interview before and it's wonderful. Some bits are new to me, but I have so much respect for her. She is a great actress and human being. I hope her career takes off. Anne Boleyn is one of my favorite historical characters and she delivered the best portrayal of her in the course of film history.
stuckmodebabe 2nd-Feb-2013 04:41 am (UTC)
MY QUEEN.



I read this a couple days ago on tumblr and loved it. I really admire how she wanted to give an honest portrayal of Anne and how she tried to get fucking Hirst to give her more to do with her portrayal.
angelmonster 2nd-Feb-2013 04:48 am (UTC)
She was amazing as Anne.

Anne is such a polarized historical figure. People either paint her as a horrible human being or romanticize her. Honestly she doesn't deserve either, she wasn't as bad as history likes to say she was but she was no saint. She wanted that dick and that crown tbh and ran over anyone in her way.

But she did give birth to one of the. Greatest Monarchs in history so you go Anne coco!
ametalheart 2nd-Feb-2013 09:10 am (UTC)
But she did give birth to one of the. Greatest Monarchs in history so you go Anne coco!

This! I love Queen Elizabeth I so much.

Edited at 2013-02-02 09:11 am (UTC)
megalixer 2nd-Feb-2013 05:03 am (UTC)
Aww, I didn't know much about her but I like her a lot after reading this. Although clearly she initially had no idea about what sort of show the Tudors was, lmao.
mhfromnh 2nd-Feb-2013 05:13 am (UTC)
Anne is the greatest consort of all time. of all time.
benjuicy 2nd-Feb-2013 05:19 am (UTC)
OMGGGGG MY QUEEN!!! I love how much she loves Anne Boleyn because it makes her performance even more flawless than it already was. I wish she were in more things

Edited at 2013-02-02 05:21 am (UTC)
queen_norleans I think this is a perfect excuse to post a JRM gif — 2nd-Feb-2013 05:22 am (UTC)
wtf
socorporatesuit 2nd-Feb-2013 05:23 am (UTC)
i loved the show while it was on, despite how ridiculous it got near the end, and she was so amazing on it. i respect her so much more after reading how devoted she was to the role and how hard she fought to get them to portray anne as a complex character. it definitely worked imo, her performance really stood out

tho it kinda makes me wonder how many actors are unhappy with their material and have to sit in interview through interview talking about how great it is
missmoelove3 2nd-Feb-2013 05:32 am (UTC)
She is gorgeous and by far had the best chemistry with Jonathan on the show. Don't think I could picture anyone else in that role other than her. Is there no Natalie tag yet?
ch33rylips 2nd-Feb-2013 05:36 am (UTC)
FLAWLESS QUEEN
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