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I just hope I get the chance to do something like this again, but with lots more money.
People have very strong feelings toward this woman, of course, because shes amazing.
She would come back to England and have a little spice.
She was not doing it like everybody else, and that made her attractive to Henry.
It also made her threatening to the traditional British monarchy.
Clearly, she was even more threatening in the fact that Henry left the Catholic Church because of her.
Religion is one of the most divisive subjects in humankind, and she disrupted Englands religion.
I also learned there is so much mystery around her.
We dont have any record of Anne in her own words.
No diary entries or journals.
That mystery is the very thing that makes her such an interesting character to jump into.
We had a lot of license to imagine who she is.
Imagine living with that kind of cruelty: What kind of person would you become?
Better yet, imagine living through that and already being a polarizing figure?
It began to crack her relationship with Henry and then herself.
Its so interesting what women throughout history have to go through.
Yes, we have made some great changes, but we are still struggling.
Right now, we are standing on the precipice ofRoev.Wadebeing rolled back.
Do you believe having a primarily female creative team helped capture all of these nuances?Absolutely.
Being a woman allows you the authority to tell this story from a different perspective.
I was given the space to pump and nurse every three hours that is so big!
Or women who cant breastfeed at all because theyre not given the space to pump.
This experience on set was a blessing.
She wasnt afraid to put someone in their place, slap a girl for sitting on a mans lap.
That must have been fun for you.I love that about her.
She was ambitious and fucking bitchy.
How many times have we been in that position ourselves?
Here are traits that men do not like and possess unabashedly.
And Henry fucking loved it, and honestly, Anne was essentially topping Henry from the bottom.
Not topping from the bottom?
!Im just saying.
And most importantly, she wore a satin scarf at night.
My Anne will wrap her hair because she is a Black woman.
Honestly, hair is the thing that takes me out when I watch things.
If the hair is raggedy, Im like, Whats going on?
Curl her wig like.
With shows likeBridgetonand nowAnne Boleyn, were seeing more reimaginings of race in period pieces.
Is this is a trend you hope to see more of in the future?Absolutely.
Weve been doing it for generations in the theater, so yes, lets keep disrupting peoples worlds.
And now were not making it their story butourstory.
Or a human story.
And humanity is colorful.
