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Fact-based historical drama about the scheming of Mary Villiers, who helped her son George to seduce James I and become his all-powerful lover. Historical drama, starring Julianne Moore, Nicholas Galitzine and Tony Curran
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Jack Seale
Now, this is an awful lot of fun. George Villiers is a real historical figure, who was favoured in the court of James VI and I and widely identified as the King’s lover. That hot gobbet of 17th-century gossip is the launchpad for a viciously entertaining romp, which carries a content warning for language — there is some really first-rate swearing in it — and for sex scenes, but is for adults only mainly on account of the sheer, scheming misanthropy on display.
The master manipulator is George’s fearsome mother Mary (Julianne Moore), a woman who has married her way from nothing up to a decent position in society, but wants more: when she clocks that the King likes handsome men, she looks at the spectrally beautiful George (Nicholas Galitzine) and hatches a brilliant, terrible plan.
The George we meet at first is, however, an embarrassment to Mary, who packs him off to a French château for a sort of honey-trap boot camp. When he returns to England, the games begin.
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rolenameMary VilliersJulianne MooreGeorge VilliersNicholas GalitzineKing James ITony CurranSir Francis BaconMark O'HalloranSandieNiamh AlgarSir Edward CokeAdrian RawlinsKit VilliersJacob McCarthyLaura AshcattleRina MahoneyJennyEmily FairnFrances CokeAmelia Gething
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rolenameWriterD.C. Moore
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