This extraordinary line of very powerful women, who clearly ruled their own domestic terrain. What was most evocative for you when researching the period?ĭiscovering these women and particularly Elizabeth and her mother Jacquetta. I read the history and pulled the three stories out, and then she had to put them back together again. In terms of the scripting, it was quite tricky and I think Emma Frost did a wonderful job of combining these three books back together. How are we going to make Anne, when we first meet her, so much younger and naïve and not at all powerful? So when you start combining these three stories you’re always having to go, how are we going to make Margaret really stand up as a character when you’ve got this fantastic character of Elizabeth? It was really difficult because in the three books, the reader starts the page and steps into the mind of Elizabeth Woodville, or the mind of Margaret Beaufort, or the mind of Anne Neville.

How do you bring the narrative from the novels to the screen? I think anyone who really loves history, there’s always a sort of a hope that one day you’ll just slide through time, that it’s only a dimension and it’s not really substantial.Īnd there are moments on location, filming, that I felt before with previous films that you just go, “I feel like I’m there now.” It’s very powerful when it happens.

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