Peter Kosminsky, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light | MASTERPIECE Studio
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.
Director Peter Kosminsky worked closely with late author Hilary Mantel to bring the story of Thomas Cromwell’s rise and fall to the screen. Today, he shares his experience working with Hilary, filming on the same Hampton Court Palace flagstones where King Henry VIII once stood, and finally saying goodbye to Thomas Cromwell.
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| 0:16.3 | i'm jace lay cobb and you're listening to Masterpiece Studio. Tudor England was an |
| 0:23.9 | unforgiving time. The mood was drenched with executions, imprisonments, betrayal, sickness, |
| 0:30.5 | a political chess match from which no one was safe. As we saw in Wolf Hall, being in King Henry |
| 0:36.1 | the Eighth's favor, was both one of the safest and most dangerous places to be. |
| 0:41.0 | For a king who has his own wife beheaded, |
| 0:43.5 | there was no telling what he would or would not do. |
| 0:47.0 | Wolf Hall and its sequel Wolf Hall, The Mirror in the Light, |
| 0:49.8 | depict the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, |
| 0:52.4 | one of Tudor England's most successful and most notorious figures. |
| 0:59.0 | Come out, dog. |
| 1:05.0 | So, Master Cromwell, William Poplar tells me I might find a use for you. |
| 1:13.1 | Where are you from? |
| 1:14.2 | Putney, left when I was a boy. |
| 1:16.7 | Your father? |
| 1:17.9 | Blacksmith. |
| 1:19.3 | Ah, at last. |
| 1:22.0 | A man born in a more lowly state than myself. |
| 1:26.9 | For two seasons now, Cromwell has balanced on the razor edge of serving in King Henry's |
| 1:32.3 | court, a position where the line between life and death is as tenuous as a single heartbeat. |
| 1:38.2 | Cromwell's story serves as a lesson and warning about loyalty. |
| 1:42.6 | Many of you will know that I have been a great traveler in this world, |
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