Spontanously, I would want Amanda Hale, who was one of the few good things in The White Queen as Margaret Beaufort
She was fabulous as Margaret. I read quite a bit about Margaret Beaufort last year and appreciated what she achieved rather more than my usual pro-Yorkist standpoint has let me do before. The White Queen was too flawed in other ways for me but at least they gave the part of Margaret to an actress who could really bring her alive. Unfortunately I suspect the BBC will want Margaret of Anjou played by a French actress, though Jane Lapotaire as an older Margaret would work.
retconning the entire Scarlett and Melanie relationship and Melanie's character by claiming Melanie never liked or trusted ScarlettWhat!!! Having quite recently seen the remastered version of the film I would say that position was diametrically opposed to anything seen on screen let alone written about in the book. Watching it again after many years I would say that the relationship that really stood out for me as the strongest in the whole film was that
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Spontanously, I would want Amanda Hale, who was one of the few good things in The White Queen as Margaret Beaufort
Are you sure you don't mean the only good thing? It was like watching a car crash... I wanted to look away, I couldn't and I think I may now be scarred for life. Mind you, I didn't much like the only one of the books in the series that I read.
I didn't even finish watching it. And I dislike Philippa Gregory's books, full stop. But other than Amanda Hale as Margaret Beaufort, I also liked the actress who played Jacquetta Woodville. (Even if she was saddled with the silly magic plot. Other than these two, though....
I know. The Scarlett and Melanie relationship is so important to the story and to both their characterisations, and if an author gets it wrong, I can't trust him with getting anything right.
re: Margaret Beaufort, I, too, didn't appreciate what a remarkable woman she must have been until last year.
re: the BBC wanting a French actress - would a bilingual one available, though? Because those are a lot of Shakespearean lines. Anyway, I don't recall they used French actors for the French in The Hollow Crown. *clings to the idea of Amanda Hale as Margaret of Anjou until casting anouncement*
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She was fabulous as Margaret. I read quite a bit about Margaret Beaufort last year and appreciated what she achieved rather more than my usual pro-Yorkist standpoint has let me do before. The White Queen was too flawed in other ways for me but at least they gave the part of Margaret to an actress who could really bring her alive. Unfortunately I suspect the BBC will want Margaret of Anjou played by a French actress, though Jane Lapotaire as an older Margaret would work.
retconning the entire Scarlett and Melanie relationship and Melanie's character by claiming Melanie never liked or trusted ScarlettWhat!!! Having quite recently seen the remastered version of the film I would say that position was diametrically opposed to anything seen on screen let alone written about in the book. Watching it again after many years I would say that the relationship that really stood out for me as the strongest in the whole film was that ( ... )
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Are you sure you don't mean the only good thing? It was like watching a car crash... I wanted to look away, I couldn't and I think I may now be scarred for life. Mind you, I didn't much like the only one of the books in the series that I read.
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re: Margaret Beaufort, I, too, didn't appreciate what a remarkable woman she must have been until last year.
re: the BBC wanting a French actress - would a bilingual one available, though? Because those are a lot of Shakespearean lines. Anyway, I don't recall they used French actors for the French in The Hollow Crown. *clings to the idea of Amanda Hale as Margaret of Anjou until casting anouncement*
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