Friday, February 02, 2007

Two Actors Playing Henry VIII This Year


Is there any historical proof that King Henry VIII was an extreme hottie? Because, well, day-yumn.

But no...


this is what we call "creative license" or "liberties taken"

[see popbytes for more on Jonathan Rhys-Meyer's go at the royal in The Tudors]

9 comments:

SusanP said...

Bravo. It's not often one sees the contrast between fiction and reality so succinctly demonstrated.

I nearly fell off my chair.

Anonymous said...

Liberties are indeed being taken - although to be strictly fair, Henry was a reputed hottie in his young days.

Mind you, this is only compared to other Royalty and most of them were Hapsburgs, notorious for being quite fantastically ugly, even in offical portraits. Would love to see what Hollywood could make of them.

J.D. said...

Yeah...

Eric and Jonny really don't seem like Henry VIII to me. To everyone, I assume.

They're too hot!! I'm straight, but I'm not blind.

Creative license is the only thing they can say to justiy this. They're both good actors, but come on... Henry?

Poli said...

I'll wait until I see the movie. Maybe they'll have some makeup magic going on.

Anonymous said...

Bana will win.

The defense rests.

Rob

Anonymous said...

Um..*thrust*

That is all.

Paxton Hernandez said...

Maybe they are going UGLY for their art a la Swank or Theron. Maybe they will get 20 pounds on, and act under a ton of make up. Maybe?

Anonymous said...

Bruno, fortunately for lustful viewers, that trailers suggest otherwise (at least for The Tudors).

Anonymous said...

I would much rather watch Jonathan. Don't care for Bana.