doriandalloway: Elizabeth, dir. Shekhar Kapur (1999) “The film is more a metaphorical thing ab
doriandalloway:Elizabeth, dir. Shekhar Kapur (1999)“The film is more a metaphorical thing about what it means to be queen. It’s about what happens in public to the private self, and the melding of the heart and the head when there are not only political expectations but political ambitions. There are so many varied reports about her - that she was a hermaphrodite, she was a man, she was asexual, she was unable to have children… […] It’s very hard, when you play an historical character: you know there are certain facts, but you do need to find the dramatic reason for telling the story.” -- source link
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