Sorry guys, I know this thread is over 2 years old, but I had no find it and bump it for this (which is also kind of old news), because I've just seen the first couple of episodes of the 2013 BBC/Starz mini-series The White Queen, and amazingly it turned out to be rarely historically accurate in one aspect:
Aneurin Barnard as Richard, Duke of Gloucester/King Richard the Third in The White Queen:
The reconstruction of the face of the real Richard the Third on the basis of his skull:
Which in turn looks quite like this contemporary portrait of Richard:
That's really great casting! Especially since they apparently cast him before Richard's skeleton was dug up.
Hurray for thread necromancy! And digging out 500+ years old bones!
Aneurin Barnard as Richard, Duke of Gloucester/King Richard the Third in The White Queen:
The reconstruction of the face of the real Richard the Third on the basis of his skull:
Which in turn looks quite like this contemporary portrait of Richard:
That's really great casting! Especially since they apparently cast him before Richard's skeleton was dug up.
Hurray for thread necromancy! And digging out 500+ years old bones!
It's funny seeing Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII o The Tudors, who looks nothing like Henry (no, not because he's good-looking - Henry was athletic and good-looking in his youth, before growing fat; but because he simply doesn't look like Henry at all) and then realizing that they had on the same show a guy who actually looks quite like Henry (who was tall, red-haired, and a big, broad-shoulddred and strong guy - before growing into big and fat) - Steven Waddington:
