Anne Boleyn FIRST LOOK: Jodie Turner-Smith awaits her fate as Henry VIII s doomed second wife in teaser for thrilling mini series - after becoming the first black actress to play the role
The Queen and Slim actress, 34, can be seen making her way through the castle as Henry VIII s doomed second wife
The upcoming series - scheduled to air later this year - explores the final moments of the queen s life from her perspective
The three-part miniseries, by Fable Pictures, Channel 5 and Sony Pictures TV, is expected to air later this year
Jodie has been cast as the first black actress to play Henry VIII s second wife in a bid to challenge conventions
Monday, 15th February 2021 at 2:03 pm
Channel 5 has created a new psychological thriller about King Henry VIII’s most famous wife: the ill-fated Anne Boleyn, mother of the future Elizabeth I.
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In February 2021 the channel released its first image of Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith in the title role, dressed in period costume and wearing a replica of the pearl necklace bearing the letter “B” for Boleyn, as seen in the National Portrait Gallery’s painting of Anne.
The period drama is set to take place during Anne’s final five months prior to her execution. “It was such a rapid decline from going from the most powerful position in court after the King to head on a chopping block. That was a great contained space to tell a drama in,” writer Eve Hedderwick Turner told Deadline.
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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.”