Damian Lewis on Returning to ‘Wolf Hall’: ‘Who Doesn’t Want to Play Henry VIII?’

Damian Lewis on Returning to Wolf Hall

– Sweet in a Murderous Kind of Way – by Mark Peikert | Gold Derby | June 11, 2025 ”We could have all just said, ‘Nah, I don’t want to do it,’” Damian Lewis tells Gold Derby about returning to the Tudor court for Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. “But the experience in the first series [Wolf Hall] was so enjoyable—and anyway, who doesn’t want to play Henry VIII?” Especially the way screenwriter Peter Straughan writes the king, by way of author…

Damian Lewis on returning to ‘Wolf Hall’: ‘Who doesn’t want to play Henry VIII?’

”We could have all just said, ‘Nah, I don't want to do it,’” Damian Lewis tells Gold Derby about returning to the Tudor court for Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. “But the experience in the first series [Wolf Hall] was so enjoyable — and anyway, who doesn't want to play Henry VIII?” Especially the way screenwriter Peter Straughan writes the king, by way of author Hilary Mantel’s original trilogy. This Henry VIII is feckless and petulant, ter…