Rhys-meyers' Monarch Makeover
09 April 2007
MISSION: Impossible 3 star JONATHAN RHYS-MEYERS has defended his casting as famously overweight English king HENRY VIII, insisting US audiences don't want to watch an obese royal.
The Irish heart-throb is playing the 16th century tyrant - who married six times - in US TV Series THE TUDORS, which shows a sexed up side to Tudor England.
Rhys-Meyers says, "You're trying to sell a historical period drama to a country like America, you don't want a big, fat, 250 pounds, red haired guy with a beard.
"It doesn't let people embrace the fantastic monarch he was, because they're not attracted to the package. Heroes do not look like Henry Vlll. That is just the world we live in."
The Irish heart-throb is playing the 16th century tyrant - who married six times - in US TV Series THE TUDORS, which shows a sexed up side to Tudor England.
Rhys-Meyers says, "You're trying to sell a historical period drama to a country like America, you don't want a big, fat, 250 pounds, red haired guy with a beard.
"It doesn't let people embrace the fantastic monarch he was, because they're not attracted to the package. Heroes do not look like Henry Vlll. That is just the world we live in."
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