Jodie Turner-Smith has revealed she feels Meghan Markle could have modernised the royal family and said the monarchy is limiting and archaic .
The British actress, 34, who is the first black woman to take on the role of Anne Boleyn in the new Channel 5 series, said she is not a monarchist in a new interview.
Speaking about Meghan in an interview published in The Telegraph, Jodie said: It was a terrible missed opportunity, the way in which it was not allowed to be something that really modernises that institution, and to change it to something for the better. I think that’s why there’s dysfunction there.
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It then shows her in childbirth, desperately asking if her child was a boy before she is seen arguing with King Henry VIII (Mark Stanley) yelling: You promised me sons.
Another character is heard asking Anne if her husband no longer visits her chamber, and King Henry is seen giving Jane Seymour (Lola Petticrew) an affectionate look as he and Anne attend a party.
Doomed: The trailer opens with Thomas Cromwell (Barry Ward) informing Anne she is being charged with treason, to which she immediately pleads not guilty
Events: It also shows her in childbirth, desperately asking if her child was a boy , Anne famously gave birth to Elizabeth who went on to be the Queen of England
The Last Ship s Jodie Turner-Smith, which you can check out above.
The trailer gives us our first look at the period drama as we see the historical figure try to bear a son as an heir to the throne, while teasing we don t yet know her true story. We also see Boleyn as she prepares to be beheaded by order of her husband Henry VIII, played by Delving deeper into Anne Boleyn s immense strengths while examining her fatal weaknesses and vulnerabilities, [writer] Eve [Hedderwick Turner] s scripts immediately captured my imagination, Turner-Smith previously said of the role.
The three-part series is described as a psychological thriller that tells the story of Boleyn from her own perspective for the first time.
Jodie Turner-Smith is every inch a queen in her fierce and passionate portrayal of Anne Boleyn in a gripping new television drama about the second of Henry VIII’s six wives.
Turner-Smith’s colour-blind casting is an ingenious move by producers Faye Ward and Hannah Farrell, because it accentuates her position as an outsider and makes us more aware of the perils she faced at the hands of her husband and his scheming courtiers.
With writer Eve Hedderwick Turner and director Lynsey Miller, the aim in Anne Boleyn was to ‘challenge the perception’ of the doomed queen ‘and even what was taught in schools’, said Ward, the creative director of Fable Pictures and a force behind Sarah Gavron’s acclaimed film Rocks (now streaming on Netflix).
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