I still remember when the advanced copy of Hilary Mantels 2020 novelThe Mirror and the Lighthit my desk.
Rylance as Cromwell winces at the spectacle, a premonition of his own future.
The series speeds us through the next four years.
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell inWolf Hall: The Mirror and the Lightfrom MASTERPIECE on PBS, starting March 23.
Her death is a tragedy, and there are more tragedies to come.
Rylance is one of our greatest living actors, and the emotions he holds in his face are manifold.
His delivery of Mantels dialoguemodern, intelligent, bristling with implication and subterfugeis mesmerizingly clear.
Damian Lewis as Henry VIII inWolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Hewontsurvivebut hell go down swinging.
It all makes for essential television.
Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Kate Phillips as Jane Seymour
