#maya calling up ellie and ahmed like ‘are you all okay with the actor whose playing cromwell coming to see the original diary’

[malkaleh]

So @nocompromise-noregrets is just inspiring me so much to make fictional fandom content for my Tudors OT3 Verse in universe TV show (Ellie as a character belongs to her as well).

Ankorra Asked: James actually visited Welles Hall? Like he really did that?

He completely did - he talked about it in post season interviews in detail. He went quietly one day and everyone was sworn to confidentiality until Unmasked aired. Same with the Townhouse Visit.

@neuroticjewishlegend

To expand on what @neuroticjewishlegend said - he talked about it as wanting to get an idea of what Cromwell was responding to - because we know almost nothing about how Tom Crom felt about any of this historically - what we do know comes from Norwich, which is gross and James was like, I didn’t base my portrayal on Norwich’s view point at all but I did want to know what he (Cromwell) was facing so I could honour how he might have reacted to it.

@legolasgetspegged

“Welles Hall was harder than the town house in some ways - I’d expected the town house to be horrible but Welles Hall has so many wonderful things, such a feeling of love and there’s this horrible shadow hanging over it in this one document.”

-James in this radio times interview

“Fuck, the town house. It’s a lovely space now - the memorial garden and they’ve made the specific rooms where it all took place into another memorial and the rest of the house is for art galleries and cafes and a shop or five and everywhere else but the rooms - they don’t feel haunted mostly - I’m told sometimes at night people have heard things still, even after the place has been cleansed but the rooms? They haunt me. I don’t know if it was just that I’ve been living with Thomas Cromwell for so long but…there’s still something evil in that place that I can’t explain. Maybe some things are so awful that you can’t erase it - that it stands as testament.”

-Semi summarising another interview James did for the features on the official Showtime YouTube account.

@cannotstoopballs