.LacyMB chats with the cast of Starz period drama BecomingElizabeth about exploring the origins of one of the most famous female leaders in history and doing right by the other powerful women in her orbit.
It’s been over 500 years since King Henry VIII ruled England, and popular culture is still deeply obsessed with the story of the Tudor family. We can’t seem to stop telling their stories—the past two years alone have once again brought the 16th-century royals back to the small screen , to the page , and even to the stage . Basically, we can’t get enough.
Part of the reason for that is the murky historical nature of the relationship that occurred between a young Elizabeth and her guardian Sir Thomas Seymour . The truth about the real-life nature of their relationship varies widely depending on what history you read and ranges from an innocent flirtation to an overtly sexual affair, but here it is made both explicit and deeply uncomfortable in a way that explains a lot about why the adult Elizabeth was the way she was.
Whether that sanitized ideal had any relation to the actual woman Elizabeth Tudor was—or at least used to be—is one of the questions“We’re so used to the kind of fireworks of Elizabeth’s story, but I think what this show does is that it really kind of gets into the nitty-gritty of what forms this woman, what drove her, what made her the iconic character that she was,” Cullen says.
“I think the most important thing to understand is how brutal and dangerous the world Elizabeth grew up in was. I didn’t expect her to be so lonely and to be so constantly scared for her life,” Rittberg explains. “She became such a strong leader because she had to fight so hard for her life and her position.”
“I think we just allowed her to be much softer than you would think she is,” Rittberg says. “And that’s something I’d like the audience to take away from the show in general: we still accept female leaders nowadays only if they lead in a quite masculine way. Strength is being loud and not vulnerable and not emotional. I think to show a vulnerable and emotional soon-to-be-queen is quite something.”
To hear Reiss tell it, part of the problem is that as a culture, we’ve sort of adopted a philosophy of scarcity when it comes to women in history, assuming that figures like Elizabeth were the rare exception rather than a general rule.
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