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Mary Queen of Scots is a 2018 historical drama film directed by Josie Rourke (in her feature directorial debut) and with a screenplay by Beau Willimon based on John Guy's 2004 biography Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart.
Mary Queen of Scots: Directed by Josie Rourke. With Angela Bain, Richard Cant, Guy Rhys, Thom Petty. Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Josie Rourke
- 2018-12-21
Dec 6, 2018 · Mary is now the queen who leaned in and lost. The movie becomes a story of two leaders bound by sovereign duty, hindered by their gender, pitted against one another for the crown and want of children.
Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. But Scotland and England fall...
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- Josie Rourke
- R
- Saoirse Ronan
- Probably Fiction: Elizabeth Was Preoccupied with Her Fertility
- Possibly Fact: Elizabeth Had An Affair with Robert Dudley
- Fact: Elizabeth and Mary Exchanged Letters
- Fact: Mary’s Half-Brother James Conspired with John Knox
- Fact: Queen Mary’s Second Husband Tried to Usurp The Throne
- Possibly Fact: Darnley Had An Affair with Mary’s Secretary, David Rizzio
- Fact: Darnley Conspired to Murder Rizzio
- Fact: Darnley Was Murdered
- Fact: Lord Bothwell Raped Mary
- Fiction: Elizabeth and Mary Met in Secret
Much of the drama in Mary Queen of Scotscenters on the two queens’ romantic choices. Historically, Elizabeth has been portrayed as cold and calculating, while Mary has been perceived as flighty and incompetent. Both Guy and the film take pains to show that both women actually defied such stereotypes. Still, the movie also suggests that Elizabeth en...
In the movie, Elizabeth is shown to be romantically entangled with Robert Dudley (Joe Alwyn) but refuses to marry him. At the time, rumors swirled about the two. Some people even posited that Dudley killed his own wife in order to be with Elizabeth. English noblemen did suggest that Dudley might be a good match for Mary, but Mary rejected him, prob...
Many of the letters that Mary and Elizabeth write to one another in the film are real. The two maintained a correspondence, and Elizabeth even considered naming Mary her heir. But Mary’s claim to the throne proved a threat to Elizabeth. Many perceived Elizabeth as the illegitimate child of a king who had sought an illegal divorce from his first wif...
Mary was raised in France alongside her eventual first husband, the Dauphin of France. But she was widowed at age 18 and fled to her homeland of Scotland after her husband’s death. Before she ever arrived on the country’s shores, the preacher John Knox (David Tennant) wrote the sexist screed The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regi...
After Queen Mary was widowed by her first husband at 18, she married Lord Darnley (Jack Lowden), her third cousin. Their marriage was likely motivated by politics, rather than passion: marrying Darnley strengthened Mary’s claim to the English throne. Though Mary had agreed to rule with Darnley as an equal, once they were wed, Darnley demanded that ...
Some historians, including Guy, contend that Mary’s second husband, Lord Darnley, did in fact sleep with the Italian-born David Rizzio (Ismael Cruz Cordova), one of the queen’s close associates. Guy writes that Rizzio and Darnley were found in bed together. Meanwhile, Rizzio became a close confidant of Mary’s, playing cards with her at night and ev...
Darnley either believed that he had been cuckolded or resented the fact that Mary’s court thought this to be true. Some historians also suggest that he grew jealous of Mary and Rizzio’s rumored relationship because he felt betrayed by Rizzo following their own rumored affair. The rest of the court resented that Rizzio had the ear of the queen, espe...
Someone blew up Darnley’s house, then strangled him to death after he managed to escape. Mary became convinced that these murderers were after her, as well. Though the two were estranged, she had visited Darnley’s house just a few hours before the attack. Mary’s third husband Lord Bothwell (Martin Compston) was tried for Darnley’s murder but acquit...
After Darnley was assassinated, Bothwell abducted Mary and kept her hostage for months. The movie condenses the timeline, but ultimately Bothwell did tell Mary that he would marry her, whether she wanted him or not. According to historians, Bothwell raped Mary, and the queen became pregnant—though she later miscarried. Mary could do nothing to esca...
The secret tete-a-tete between Elizabeth and Mary is invented for dramatic purposes. Both Guy’s biography and the film assert that Elizabeth was jealous of Mary’s youth, beauty and charisma. Ultimately, in the scene between Mary and Elizabeth, Elizabeth discovers that those very attributes have doomed Mary, while the more cautious and chaste Elizab...
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- Eliana Dockterman
Watch the official trailer for Mary Queen of Scots, a drama movie starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie and Guy Pearce.
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