it’s actually incredible how much a good actress makes a difference to a project/ perception of the historic figure they’re playing……… had anne boleyn been played by anyone besides natalie dormer on tudors, i honestly don’t think anne would be as loved as she is among ~my gen~ or w/e today.
Did you watch The Tudors as it was coming out? I’m rly curious what your reaction was (assuming you already had some knowledge of Anne/the period), as I didn’t have a lot of in-depth knowledge when I watched & I wonder how that affected the ~experience lol
I did, but I was 13 when it came out lolol…
I had really no knowledge of the era beyond fiction; although it wasn’t the first Tudor era thing I’d watched/read…before this I had watched AOTD, the Lady Jane movie w/ HBC, the made-for-tv version of Red Rose: House of Tudor (that book that was like a young Elizabeth’s diary?), and had read Doomed Queen Anne and the book about young Mary (I) by that same author, and also TOBG (forgive me my trespasses~).
Somehow, I don’t think I totally absorbed that these characters were based on real people? That probably makes me sound dumb shshsh but like…idk I didn’t really grasp that idt, mainly I just found the first season entertaining in a guilty-pleasure kind of way (I would stay up late and watch it when my parents were asleep).
I can’t speak for others, but I think it definitely had a big impact on me…I disliked George and Thomas Boleyn for quite awhile because of it, it made me think Henry VIII had been a reality-show brat since birth, it gave me the impression that the age gap between COA and Henry had been huge…later on it made me think Katherine Howard had actually been guilty of adultery (although this didn’t make me unsympathetic to her– for a lot of fans online it did, apparently!! gross~), that the Flanders mare quote about AOC was real, that Charles Brandon was younger than Henry or the same age, etc.
And it didn’t make me want to research immediately; it was more after I rewatched the series when I was older than I began to see the flaws and inaccuracies for what they were and start doing some indepedent research/reading on the Tudor era and its most prominent figures.
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