First look at Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn
Channel 5, Sony Pictures Television and Fable Pictures have released the first image from
Anne Boleyn, a new three-part TV drama which gained headlines last year for the casting of black actress Jodie Turner-Smith (
Queen & Slim) as the second wife of King Henry VIII.
Written by Eve Hedderwick Turner, Anne Boleyn is describes as “a psychological thriller rather than a stuffy period drama” and “shines a feminist light on the final months of Boleyn’s life, re-imagining her struggle with Tudor England’s patriarchal society, her desire to secure a future for her daughter, Elizabeth, and the brutal reality of her failure to provide Henry with a male heir.”