William Squire

A Tudor costume saga diligently sensationalizes the folie-à-deux of King Henry VIII (Burton) and Anne Boleyn (Bujold), the queen he falls in and (a thousand days later) out of love with, one vacuously succumbs to his hardened promiscuity and the fixation of begetting a male heir, whereas the...

This obnoxious villain, Henry VIII, earned Richard Burton an Oscar nomination in 1970, but failed again - Henry VIII in "Annie's Thousand Days."

First of all, this is a female protagonist, and the male protagonist is positioned as a foil for the female protagonist. The way to correctly fulfill the...