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Отправлено: 14.04.09 13:28. Заголовок: Тюдоры 4-й сезон
Хорошие новости - Тюдоры с Джонатаном Рис Майерсом в роди сумасшедшего Короля Генриха 4 продолжаться четвертым сезоном, который покажут весной 2010 года. Плохие новости - это будет последний сезон.
Эксклюзивный продюсер Майкл Херст сказал - " Серии Тюдоров дают нам не в последнюю очередь наблюдать за другими представителями династии Тюдоров. Елизавета умерла, но Мэри и Эдвард нет , также как и отец Генриха."
В четвертом сезоне будет 10 серий продолжительностью по часу и будет фокусироваться на отношениях Короля Генриха с его последними двумя женами - Кэтрин Ховард и Кэтрин Парр. http://jonathanforever.ucoz.ru/news/2009-04-14-98
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Отправлено: 06.04.10 22:19. Заголовок: Ellen Gray: 'Tud..
Ellen Gray: 'Tudors' back with King Henry & his wives
By Ellen Gray Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News TV Critic
THE TUDORS. 9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime.
As Showtime's "The Tudors" heads into its fourth and final season on Sunday, I've been thinking a lot about Katherine Howard and Jesse James.
The fifth wife of Henry VIII and Sandra Bullock's soon-to-be-ex might not have hit it off if they'd met: History records no tattoos for the doomed teenage queen, who's nonetheless been stamped a tramp for centuries.
Yet on the surface they both seem to have lived dangerously.
That James' stunt-filled Spike series, "Jesse James Is a Dead Man," hasn't actually touched on the perils of screwing around on one of America's sweethearts doesn't make the title less apt.
Fortunately, we don't execute people in this country for adultery these days. We don't even banish them from golf courses.
Which makes the young queen, played by Tamzin Merchant in "The Tudors" as a sexy and only occasionally endearing dimwit, the real daredevil.
Howard, who married a king who'd already executed her cousin, Anne Boleyn, on charges, probably trumped up, of adultery and incest, proceeded to sleep with one of her new husband's own men, a decision that in retrospect seems akin to a young girl's accepting a ride in Ted Bundy's Volkswagen with full knowledge of his past crimes.
I hope it's giving nothing away to say that Katherine won't be with us for the whole season.
I've occasionally been lukewarm in my enthusiasm for "Tudors" creator Michael Hirst's interpretation of Henry's life and times and critical of Showtime's insistence on telling sometimes monstrous stories in the prettiest possible way.
And maybe something is lost in our not seeing the aging king as the corpulent being he's said to have become by the time he married someone young enough to be his daughter. A mildly padded Jonathan Rhys Meyers, even with a festering sore on his leg, still makes for a pretty good-looking king.
But I've come to admire Hirst's sex-charged costume drama for its deft blending of gossip and governance. Henry's six wives still form the thread of the narrative, just as they always have, but it's impossible to have stuck with "The Tudors" for this long and not learned a great deal about the nuts and bolts of monarchy and about the forces beyond sexual desire that drove the man to do the things he did.
I wouldn't recommend taking every word of "The Tudors" as fact, much less citing it in a term paper, but as historical fiction, it's proven remarkably robust.
(Next up on Showtime from Hirst, who's written every episode of "The Tudors": "The Borgias," created by "The Crying Game's" Neil Jordan and with Jeremy Irons as the patriarch of the notorious Renaissance dynasty.)
Perhaps Rhys Meyers' refusal to morph into the trademark Hans Holbein portrait of his character has freed him to focus on Henry's less physical traits, from his quick wit to his quicker temper. Season 4 finds him signing death warrants right and left, and you quickly realize that a man doesn't have to be physically imposing to be terrifically frightening.
Joss Stone returns as Henry's discarded fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, a woman bright enough to know a narrow escape when she sees one. It seems to be a relief to Henry when they see each other again, and it may be a relief to viewers, too.
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Отправлено: 06.04.10 22:20. Заголовок: Джонатан рад распрощ..
Джонатан рад распрощаться с Тюдорами Jonathan Rhys Meyers: 'I'm Glad to Say Goodbye' to Tudors by Jeanne Wolf Jonathan Rhys Meyers returns as Henry VIII in the final season of Showtime's The Tudors. The handsome Irish actor has made the 16th century royal a sexy, as well as powerful, ruler.
Parade.com's Jeanne Wolf found out how Rhys Meyers feels about leaving the throne.
Ready for the end. "I'm glad to say goodbye. It's nice to say goodbye to things. Its funny, I made a movie with Anthony Hopkins 10 years ago and he said one of his favorite parts of making films was going on to the next thing. It's like the death of one thing but the beginning of another. I had the best time doing the series and Henry was one of the best parts I've ever played. And in this final season he becomes an older man which was a bit more challenging because it took some prosthetic make-up."
His review of the king. "I think he makes great television, but in the final analysis, he was not a great monarch. He was wracked with ego, vanity and thoughts of his own divinity. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, so he was very corrupt. I have a degree of admiration for him, but not much. Basically, he was a bastard, but an interesting and attractive bastard."
Speaking of attractive. "He was a lot heavier and taller than I am, but so what? I think I'd have been stupid to put on a fat suit and I wasn't about to gain a lot weight. But I think Henry was better looking than he was portrayed in the classic portrait by Hans Holbein. I think he would have hated it. It may be great art, but it's not a good picture. I've seen fat, ugly pictures of Brad Pitt because some paparazzi got him from a bad angle on a bad morning. So how would he feel if that were the sole image of him that would be seen by future generations? He'd be going, 'What the hell? I was a great looking guy.'"
Love among the royals. "It certainly has been a driving force in the series, but I don't think they thought of love in the same way as we think of it today with all the romantic overtones. We put so much emphasis on finding the right person. It's like, 'If you don't get this guy or if you don't get this girl, you're not cool, you're a loser.' In Henry's time it was, 'If you don't have this kingdom and if you don't have that castle, who cares about the girl?'"
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But they didn't skip the sex. "Some people think we've overdone it, but they were much more sexually gregarious in the 15th century than we are today. Sex was very, very important. It's what you did when the sun went down. So we couldn't leave out the scenes of passion."
As for getting passionate on the set. "Actually, it's not unpleasant to get it on with beautiful actresses and you don't have any nasty repercussions afterward. To make it work, you have to experience a little sexual chemistry. But it can be a bit taxing when you're doing sex scenes in front of a crew of like a hundred people under hot lights with cameras poking into all sorts of private areas."
Go ahead and call him a hot hunk. "I'd rather people think I'm sexy than not. Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business."
Henry might have loved the Internet. "We live in a very, very fast world, and Henry's court at the time was the fastest in the world. If you weren't in Henry's court you were nobody. Everything revolved around him. It was the be all and end all. It was the place to be. It was the Mecca of learning. It was the Mecca of style. It was the Mecca of fashion. It was the Mecca of entertainment. That's why he was kind of like the rock star of his time." http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/2010/0406-jonathan-rhys-meyers-tudors.html
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Отправлено: 24.04.10 16:42. Заголовок: This week, "The ..
This week, "The Tudors" sees King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) begin to rue his decision to marry the silly 17 year-old Catherine Howard. The frivolous queen has already made enemies with Henry's pious daughter Mary, and now has her eye on the cruel and rakish Culpepper who is courting her surreptitiously.
Introduced to the King by Cromwell, Lutheran German-born Anne of Cleves (Joss Stone) was the fourth queen prior to Catherine, and an irate Henry divorced her, greatly displeased by her appearance.
Yet it was time that softened Henry's initial dislike and he grew to love her, and was quite fond of her company. She was given great respect, wealth and deference by the court per the King's orders.
In this upcoming episode of "The Tudors" on Showtime this Sunday, April 25, Henry makes a surprise visit to Anne of Cleves and Lady Elizabeth.
A more benevolent Henry VIII forgives the citizens of the North for their rebellion against him, while the youthful wife Catherine he dotes upon begins a passionate affair with Culpepper. The "doting" begins to wane.
At the time of her death years later, Anne of Cleves had become a Catholic.
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Отправлено: 25.04.10 22:14. Заголовок: Not every princess’ ..
Not every princess’ life is a fairy tale.
Irish actress Sarah Bolger (“The Spiderwick Chronicles”) plays the dour teenager Princess Mary, King Henry VIII’s eldest child, on Showtime’s “The Tudors,” tonight at 9.
“She is a woman who has been cursed, abandoned at such a young age. She is an old youth in many ways,” Bolger told the Herald during a telephone interview.
Henry’s (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) quest for a male heir prompted him to cast aside Mary’s mother, Catherine of Aragon, and put the young princess’ claim to the throne in limbo for years.
“She was princess, then Lady Mary. She was just cooped up in this house outside of England, not close to her father’s throne. She was the minder of (half-sister) Elizabeth,” Bolger said.
In this fourth and final season of “The Tudors,” Mary is faced with perhaps the biggest insult to date: her father’s marriage to teenage trophy wife Catherine Howard (Tamzin Merchant).
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