#thomas seymour

The fact that Thomas Seymour is buried in the same location as Anne Boleyn … the disrespect

NOT BECOMING ELIZABETH’S OFFICIAL INSTA PINNING MY COMMENT ABOUT HATING THOMAS SEYMOUR TO THE TOP OF THEIR POST LMAO

FINALLY some interviews! Thanks to @annabolinas for finding these! 

Right so some things to take away: 

• Jessica Raine read a biography of Catherine for this role! The way she speaks of her is with a tone of admiration and she talks about the hardship she’s faced so this makes me hopeful that Catherine will not, in fact, be portrayed as a one-note villain 
• Jamie mentioned that he intentionally didn’t watch other portrayals of Robert to make his portrayal his own which honestly I get - I would be pretty intimidated too if I felt like I had to follow in Tom Hardy and Jeremy Irons’ footsteps lol and its better for an actor to make his own sense of his role rather than trying to base it on something else. He’s an actor, not a historian after all. 
• Is that inscription by Catherine Parr that Jessica is talking about real??? I’ve never heard of it. Any thoughts @katherynparr?
• Tom Cullen mentioning the huge codpiece he had to wear lmao lmao of course Seymour would 
• Jamie saying that he still couldn’t dress himself by the end of shooting yeah my guy that’s why Robert had manservants haha!
• This whole emphasis on the script/story feeling modern is annoyingly anachronistic but we do have to remind ourselves that this is a show for entertainment, not a documentary. And unlike with Emma Frost and co, the BE crew doesn’t seem to be making pretentious, grandious statements about the people they’re portraying. They’re just telling a historical story for a modern audience and like eh, fair enough
• Jamie Blackley talking about working with an intimacy coordinator … HMMMMMMMM 
• On that note, it does seem like the focus of the sexiness will be Thomas Seymour and Catherine Parr so if that’s true, that’s a relief (not that I ship them or something but it’s better than him and Elizabeth at the very bottom most least)

theladyelizabeth:

theladyelizabeth:

Love it when Thomas Seymour stans use snarky gifs at me like I don’t know what I’m talking about and then I proceed to decimate their arguments lmao

Always using the same insipid “Oh but didn’t you know?” tone of writing when I have a literal Master’s degree in this topic like I beg you, fuck off with your condescension

Also don’t you just love how they unfailingly bring up Margaret Beaufort.

And they never stop to ask themselves WHY Margaret Beaufort is the one example they can think of for a mother that young