Rufus Sewell on Lord Melbourne’s Appeal

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🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of the First Season of Victoria.

Although many people have been rooting for Lord Melbourne and Victoria to end up together, history decided a different fate for the pair. Rufus Sewell, the actor who plays Lord M, joins us to reveal his own “mixed feelings” about being replaced by actor Tom Hughes and his character, Prince Albert, and weighs in on audiences’ reactions to Lord Melbourne.

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0:35.0	I wish not not be so much for Lord Melbourne. He is not serious.
0:47.0	He does not choose to appear serious. It is the English man, Albert. He is a man of great feeling.
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1:03.7	Albert isn't the only one who believes that Victoria should end up with Lord Melbourne.
1:08.3	There are viewers who root for them.
1:10.1	Even Victoria herself longed for it at one point, but history decided a different fate for the pair a long time ago.
1:17.0	Just as it happened in real life, Victoria proposed to Albert,
1:21.0	and Lord Melbourne accepted that it was time for him to retire and leave the
1:24.8	handsome new couple in peace.
1:26.8	The fact is, my ministry will not last forever, and then I will return thankfully to Brock it all.
1:35.0	Despite the false optimism,
1:36.8	just as Lord Melbourne regretted leaving his companion,
1:40.2	so too to the actor's soul.
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