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3:45 pm
February 16, 2009
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If you missed Jonny boy on the Martha Stewart show you can see the interview at http://www.accidentalsexiness……ts-cookin/
He had lots of interesting things to say, including the fact that he feels that Anne's story is the premium story and that he thought it was ridiculous at first that he was approached to play Henry VIII but the producer explained that they wanted to bring Tudor history to a new generation. When Martha said that there's a lot of sex and gore he laughed and said that the recipe works! It does doesn't it?! 
Debunking the myths about Anne Boleyn
12:11 pm
February 24, 2010
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I watched the interview and thought it interesting. Yes it works very well.
JRM may not be fat & smelly like Henry, but I think he captures Henry's essence. There have been many moments while watching The Tudors that I have gotten up and started pacing because Henry/JRM makes me crazy. My husband is always telling me to calm down because it's just a movie. I've had to leave the room many times. Henry makes my head hurt. If JRM can make me feel such viseral disgust for the Henry he portrays, he is doing his job and doing it well. I really am loving this series and I will be sad when it comes to an end.
12:35 pm
June 20, 2009
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I haven't seen the interview.. I'll youtube it..
He does however, portray Henry very well mentally. I know that most things are not accurate on “The Tudors”, but it is facsinating to watch all the same. JRM explodes the way I would think Henry did. And it infuriates me at the same time because you want to yell at him for being a complete, well I'll keep that sentiment to myself… LOL It's ironic watching this sometimes because you know how things are going to end up, and you want to spare some from that fate.
all the same, I can't wait for the final season, but I wish it wasn't ending..
Let not my enemies sit as my jury
12:28 pm
August 27, 2011
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I thought he did a wonderful job as a young Henry. However as an old Henry it seemed like he was doing Marlon Brando as The Godfather doing Henry VIII.
Kimberly
10:57 pm
July 17, 2011
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I’m afraid I didn’t ‘get’ him as Henry at all. I would say that the ‘older’ he got, the more cringeworthy I found his performance. When he ‘lost it’ he reminded me more of a spoilt child having a tantrum than the king unleashing his wrath. Steven Waddington who played Buckingham would have made a far better Henry I think. He had far more of a commanding presence. If he ‘lost it’ I can imagine being genuinely terrified and in awe and fear of him.
JRM's performance came across to me as someone play acting at being the big bad king. Lol.
'If honour were profitable, everybody would be honourable' Thomas More
11:27 pm
August 12, 2009
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Milady12 said:
I thought he did a wonderful job as a young Henry. However as an old Henry it seemed like he was doing Marlon Brando as The Godfather doing Henry VIII.
LOL! That scratchy voice, right?
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
7:03 am
August 27, 2011
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YES! Couldn't you just see him saying “I may call upon you to do me a service.” It was like he watched the Godfather the night before taping and said “THAT”S IT! That's how I am going to do this!” That whole Season I was like “No, no, no…Oh Honey your blowing this.” Besides he wasn't the big monster fleshy with the piggy eyes we always hear about. I mean you are supposed to cringe when you see him, this big fat smelly old drooling man with the teenage Kitty Howard. You didn't really. I thought for sure they would change actors for the ending. I was more than a bit surprised when they didn't.
Kimberly
7:30 am
May 16, 2011
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Yeah he did great as young Henry, there was no middle aged Henry really. Then overnight he was old and grey and all that. Although JRM was great i think they should have gotten an older and red haired person to play Henry….i mean of course Elizabeth will be questioned as his daughter in the show! Both parents had brown hair, how could she have red hair?
I think The Duke of Buckingham in the first episodes of the show kinda of fit the physical part of Henry. Red hair, tall, bulky athletic build, etc etc.
Anyways i couldn't really watch JRM has old old Henry without trying not to laugh. And it's not till now that he actually does remind me of Marlon Brando in Godfather.
I think the theory that he watched Godfather before tapping is excellent because it seems like he did.
*I also didn't understand the whole white horse and trees and young Henry and a headless skull man coming to get him. If they were trying to make it look like death or whatever then yeaaaah it wasn't very “epic” as they were going for.
• Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be.
7:42 am
August 27, 2011
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I actually like the imagery and cinematography of the dark colors and the white horse thing. I was hoping to watch him die at the end. But when I watched the extras and they explained why they didn't kill him. I went back and watched it again and it was well done. It was like he was slipping into unreality. His friends dying, his wives coming back as “shades” to haunt him with the horrifying truths of his actions throughout his life. As for the White horse…I think that represents the biblical pale horse coming to take him to Hell. The headless skull man- The Grim Reaper.
Kimberly
8:27 pm
August 12, 2009
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Yes, I liked the imagery of that also and still wish the episode had ended with Death on a Pale Horse (from the Biblical Four Horseman of the Apocolypse; or if you were a Highlander fan, you can just call him Methos! 
) swinging in with that sword. The sun sinking quickly into night is a straight metaphor for one's life ending. Loved seeing The Milky Way spinning above him. Loved that he still saw himself as young and vibrant – don't we all? I don't feel any different at 50 than I did at 25.
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
8:03 am
May 16, 2011
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I loved the wife's coming back and everything i just didn't understand the whole horse and headless guy…it seemed like a scary fairy tale or something. I thought the forest and the colors pretty though.
• Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be.
11:33 am
February 24, 2010
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Maybe JRM didn't look like Henry as he aged, but by the time Kitty Howard came around, he was making me cringe. Maybe because I knew what it must have been like for her. Henry, to me, was a spoiled child who happened to be king. So, when JRM lost it, I saw Henry.
I loved the end. I personally didn't want to see him die on screen. I wanted to see him think about all of his friends and his wives who had gone before him. I loved the ghost scenes with the wives. The final scenes were perfect.
Yes, Carolyn, Methos…LOL
1:11 am
August 12, 2009
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Mya, the skeleton on horseback was a well-known (I thought) literary reference to or representation of death, the Grim Reaper, or Death described as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse (the pale rider on the pale horse). A scary fairy tale is probably a good way to describe it. Literature (and movies, for that matter) are filled with these references. So even though it was unfamiliar to you, I daresay it wasn't confusing to a large part of the audience. Death was coming for Henry.
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
