Good evening. You're listening to Throneo's Head, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Here with me tonight is Thronevers' Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Hello, hello, hello.

So today we are here to celebrate the holiday season the best way we know how,

and that is to watch The Lion in Winter, which is probably the closest thing we've ever come to a licensed Crusader

Kings 2 movie.

We'll also be touching a bit on Beckett in which Peter O'Toole plays Henry the

second, which he also plays in The Lion and Winter, but I think we're going to be

predominantly focusing on The Lion in Winter, because aside from sharing a character and an

actor, there's not very much connecting these two productions, and they focus on vastly different

things. Do you think so? Yeah, you know, it feels, it feels like they, you know, actually, I'm not even sure Beck, it's really about politics.

Um, interesting.

I'm not sure it is entirely a problem, but I think it's a, I think that the way it is about politics is interesting.

But yes, we're going to talk most of a Lion in Winter, which I think is the best Christmas movie ever made.

It's certainly up there.

And a lot of credit for that goes to Petertoll's mesmerizing performance as Henry II.

Obviously, Catherine Hepburn is Eleanor of Aquitaine, is likewise unforgettable.

This is probably one of her best roles.

And then the entire cast is basically just stunning down the line, right?

Anthony Hopkins as a young Richard Lionheart, Timothy Dalton as Philip the second.

It's an incredible cast.

And it was the first movie for both of them, I believe.

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