![]() And I would see people being able to ‘get it’, because of that. “It’s got everything- battles, power being wrested from people, witchcraft – it’s the proper game of thrones. They had to be savage life expectancy was very short, you were married as a teenager, had children by the time you were twenty, so life was a huge rush, and I think these films really get that point across.”Ībove all for Dunbar, The Hollow Crown tells a fabulous story. I think we could turn that around and call the guys in our story savage nobles. “We have a tendency to call primitive people ‘noble savages’. Someone, somewhere, has got to sort it out, and, in this story at least, Plantagenet did his best. His world is in a state of flux, no one is secure, people are being killed right, left and centre. He’s a Yorkshireman, he calls a spade a spade and he gets on with things. Plantagenet, who defeated the Lancastrian forces at St Albans in 1455, is the great king England never had, says Dunbar: “I‘d say he presents the same qualities that Geoffrey Boycott would present today. ![]() Someone would just come along and slaughter you because you’d be too tired to lift a sword.” ![]() I mean, I really don’t know how people sustained themselves in real battles. “Then they give you a sword, and you think ‘ah, it’s not too bad.’ And after ten minutes you’re just standing there thinking ‘Please, I can’t be doing this all day. “You’ve got the armour and everything on, and you think ‘this is going to be great’” says the Line of Duty star. ![]()
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