The Last Ship s Jodie Turner-Smith, which you can check out above.
The trailer gives us our first look at the period drama as we see the historical figure try to bear a son as an heir to the throne, while teasing we don t yet know her true story. We also see Boleyn as she prepares to be beheaded by order of her husband Henry VIII, played by Delving deeper into Anne Boleyn s immense strengths while examining her fatal weaknesses and vulnerabilities, [writer] Eve [Hedderwick Turner] s scripts immediately captured my imagination, Turner-Smith previously said of the role.
The three-part series is described as a psychological thriller that tells the story of Boleyn from her own perspective for the first time.
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.
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.”