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Favorite Anne actress.
November 8, 2011
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Mya Elise
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Who was your favorite Anne Boleyn actress? There was Natalie Dormer, Natalie Portman, Clara Kimball Young, Henny Porten, Merle Oberon, Joyce Redman, Genevieve Bujold, Maria Callas, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, and Jodhi May.

My favorites were Genevieve Bujold in Anne of the thousand days, Natalie Dormer in The Tudors, and i do hate Phillipa Gregory's Anne but i love Natalie Portman and although TOBG's version of Anne was very unlikable…Portman did a great job of acting especially in the execution scene and the scene where she tells Mary she's losing it. I also really liked Helena's portrayal of Anne. Above all my favorite is a tie between Genevieve and Dormer.

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November 8, 2011
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Natalie Dormer is my favourite, though followed very very closely by Genevieve Bujold Smile I would say it was a tie between them but Natalie Dormer looks almost exactly how I'd imagine Anne to have looked.

November 8, 2011
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Genevieve Bujold remains my favourite Anne. She had the right combination of petite stature and dark looks. She has a certain je ne sais quoi about her portrayl of Anne, which goes beyond her physical apperance.

Natalie Dormer is a close second. She did an amazing job as Anne, and had a much larger format to work with than Bujold. However (and I am being picky), Natalie's blue eyes constantly distracted me. I wish The Tudors had used brown contact lenses, since Anne clearly was a brown eyed, brunette. 

I do agree with Mya about Natalie Portman. She did a great job with a limited script. She did bring raw emotion to Anne's final days, which was poignant and touching.

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November 8, 2011
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I also loved GB…partly it was her accent but mainly the whole eye-flashing, acid-tongued fiesty Anne she brought to life…And Richard Burton's Henry sparked so well.

 

I have yet to conquer my phobia of either versions of TOBG…I've managed 15 mins in before switching one or the other off….

 

And I hvae still to watch The Chew-dors…all the way through

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November 10, 2011
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I agree about Natalie Dormer's blue eyes being distracting. I got past it but then after all the seasons i got back to it and just wished they had used brown contacts. Then Henry and Anne both had bright blue eyes and of course they made Elizabeth have them when Elizabeth and Anne both actually had dark amber colored eyes. I'm not sure whether Henry had blue or brown eyes, i've always imagined him as having blue. Other than that, Natalie D's Anne was amazing.

Genevieve however, was spot on for me. It was like Anne stepped out of the portraits or she came back as Genevieve!Something like that, Smile.

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November 12, 2011
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I hated Natalie Dormer as Anne. I think she did a good enough job, she's a good actress, but I don't like how she was portrayed earlier in the seasons and I don't like the way she looked as Anne. Yes I found the blue eyes a distraction, it's a shame they couldn't do something so simple when it is one of the things most people associate with the way Anne Boleyn looks.

I have only just heard of the movie with Helena Bonham Carter playing Anne, I would love to see it. But I'm having a hard time finding it

November 12, 2011
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It was a tv series called Henry VIII and starred Ray Winstone as H8.

 

It is out on DVD.

 

Here's a taster..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..1jjhW9_s2c

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November 12, 2011
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I didn't absolutely love the way they portrayed Anne in the first season, she was shown as a schemer for family gain basically but then i did start to love the character because she actually was falling for Henry when she didn't mean to or think to and i thought of her more as a victim because her family used to her to get father up in life. Her appearence was only a little bother for me –  the only real mistake was her eyes.

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November 26, 2011
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Olga said:

I hated Natalie Dormer as Anne. I think she did a good enough job, she's a good actress, but I don't like how she was portrayed earlier in the seasons and I don't like the way she looked as Anne. Yes I found the blue eyes a distraction, it's a shame they couldn't do something so simple when it is one of the things most people associate with the way Anne Boleyn looks.

I have only just heard of the movie with Helena Bonham Carter playing Anne, I would love to see it. But I'm having a hard time finding it

 

But how can you hate Dormer as Anne, when she was just doing what she was told? Hate the producers/writers of the show . (; It's not her fault she was portrayed in a bad light during seasons 1-2.

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November 26, 2011
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And there-in lies the problem..the actors can only go by the script they are given. They might have an input into small details…” hey I'm sure Anne never had a light-sabre to kill Katherine!”..

 

They should , however be given a degree of determination as to how to play their characters.

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January 7, 2012
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 You forgot to mention Dorothy Tutin who played Anne in the 1970 6 part TV Series.Keith Michell played Henry in that series andagain in the film a few years later..

Of all the actresses to play Anne however I think Genevieve Bujold (Anne of a Thousand Days) is among the best.I found her portrayal of Anne was exactly how I think Anne would have been. Very firey and also very determined and resolute. Richard Burton was just brilliant as Henry V111.. But for me the only actor who really gives, what I feel is a true interpretation of Henry is Keith Michell..

Natalie Dormer was very good as Anne, and again like Genevieve gave a very convincing performance of Anne.

Helena Bonham Carter, was also excellent as Anne. She brought to Anne's charater a little bit about how Anne must have felt when Henry started taking Mistresses not long after they were married..and just how devestated she was to have miscarried what was to have been a boy.

There is also a scene in the Ray Winstone film where Anne and Catherine of Aragon cross swords. Brilliant.

I should imagine that Catherine of Aragon must have been hopping mad with Anne in real life..really must of wanted to strangle her, but I suppose you could say Catherine had her revenge on Anne because of the way Anne died not so long after she herself had died…

By the way 2 rumours that may or may not be true.. Katherine of Aragon as you know is buried in Peterbrough Catherdral.. rumour has it that her favourite maid Maria Da Salanas is buried with her.. The Victorians who restored her tomb aparently opened Catherine's coffin enough and saw 2 different sorts of material and 3 thigh bones.. and a request found in Maria's will said that when she died she wanted to be buried with Catherine..

The other rumour is that when Anne's head fell onto the scaffold the candles that were burning on Catherine's tomb flared up and burned blue for a few hours after Anne death.. 

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January 7, 2012
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I also feel that each actress given the chance to play Anne bring there own ideas on how Anne would have been..

Perhaps if we could take a bit of each actresses portrayal we might make something that was close to Anne personality, wit, style and temperment..

What would you ask her if we could travel through time? Would you warn her to keep Henry at arms length?

But then if she did that we wouldn't have had the Great Elizabeth…

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January 7, 2012
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Boleyn said:

What would you ask her if we could travel through time? Would you warn her to keep Henry at arms length?

 

To go all Timey-wimey-space-ball-stuff and fixed-points-in-time…no. I'd explain that Anne's death was important but the child of Anne and Henry  was going to bring balance to the force…Laugh

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January 12, 2012
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My absolute favourite portrayal of Anne ever has to be Genevieve Bujold. She was stunning! Not only did she look perfect (possibly the only movie-Anne I've ever seen who really had those captivating, huge, sparkling dark eyes the real Anne was supposed to have) but she had Anne's personality down just right as well. I liked the way Anne was portrayed in that movie, neither a saint nor a she-devil but a believable human being. She has moments of cruelty and is clearly fallible but also emerges as a courageous and admirable woman, who loves her daughter deeply (another thing that onscreen portrayals of Anne sometimes downplay or skip over)

 

I must say though that I havent yet seen Natalie Dormer's portrayal of Anne in The Tudors. From what I hear she is very good? She certainly looks the part (apart from the blue eyes).

January 12, 2012
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MistressAnne said:

My absolute favourite portrayal of Anne ever has to be Genevieve Bujold. She was stunning! Not only did she look perfect (possibly the only movie-Anne I've ever seen who really had those captivating, huge, sparkling dark eyes the real Anne was supposed to have) but she had Anne's personality down just right as well. I liked the way Anne was portrayed in that movie, neither a saint nor a she-devil but a believable human being. She has moments of cruelty and is clearly fallible but also emerges as a courageous and admirable woman, who loves her daughter deeply (another thing that onscreen portrayals of Anne sometimes downplay or skip over)

 

I must say though that I havent yet seen Natalie Dormer's portrayal of Anne in The Tudors. From what I hear she is very good? She certainly looks the part (apart from the blue eyes).

 

Yes, Natalie Dormer was really good and she brought the fiesty and firery side of Anne to life.

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May 2, 2012
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Bujold and Dormer. I absoluetly love Bujold’s “frenchness” and her sass. My favorite scene of Bujold’s Anne is when Henry slaps her at the end and she doesn’t even react! I loved it! And Dormer, she perfectly captured a sexy side of Anne which is not explored to often. “Seduce me, write letters to me, and poems. I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.” Man, she drove Henry WILD. Shoot, she could’ve driven women wild. lol.

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