Reblogged withered-rose-with-thorns
“I didn’t want to play her as this femme fatale—she was a genuine evangelical with a real religious belief in the Reformation. Anne really influenced the world, behind closed doors. But she’s given no explicit credit because she wasn’t protected. Let’s not forget, too, that history was written by men. And even now, in our post-feminist era we still have women struggle in public positions of power. Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. A woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel. That sensibility is prevalent, even to this day.”
— Natalie Dormer on her role as Anne Boleyn (via perksofbeingsara)
