Trailer To ‘Anne Boleyn’ Limited Series Starring Jodie Turner-Smith
Channel 5, Fable Pictures, and Sony Pictures Television have released a trailer to “Anne Boleyn,” starring Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn in their convention-busting limited series on the Tudor monarch.
The three-part series will examine the downfall of Boleyn through the prism of a psychological thriller rather than a stuffy period drama retreading the demise of King Henry VIII’s second wife.
Penned by newcomer Eve Hedderwick Turner, Anne Boleyn 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.
Her co-stars include I May Destroy You’s breakout performer Paapa Essiedu as Boleyn’s brother, and Mark Stanley (White House Farm) as Henry VIII. Amanda Burton (White House Farm), Thalissa Teixeira (Two Weeks To Live), Barry Ward (White Lines), and Jamael Westman (Hamilton) also feature.
Fable founders Faye Ward and Hannah Farrell are the producers. Historian Dan Jones is an executive producer. Sony Pictures Television is co-financing the project with Channel 5 and will distribute internationally. Anne Boleyn was commissioned by Ben Frow, ViacomCBS’s director of programs in the UK, his deputy Sebastian Cardwell, and Sony’s international production president Wayne Garvie.
