Isn’t Jonathan Rhys Meyers just to die for?
I meant to watch The Tudors on terrestrial tv, but never got round to it, so I decided to get the complete first season on DVD.
I do love me some period drama, especially when it has hotties like Jonathan Rhys Meyers, as the young King Henry VIII, baring his arse all over the place.
Talk about bending it like Beckham. *g*
Fae Sutherland
April 8
12:44 pm
The Tudors is love, I just caught up with the first two eppies of season 2 on OnDemand last night. I love JRM, but for me it’s all about Charles Brandon. He had me from the first bare-butt smexxing scene in the first episode lol.
Kristie(J)
April 8
12:47 pm
LOL – I just discovered this series and blogged about it myself!! I haven’t seen the complete series – just 3 episodes – but my my – it is something isn’t it?
Nora Roberts
April 8
1:52 pm
God, JRM. The man is a walking, talking orgasm.
Tula Neal
April 8
2:09 pm
JRM might be worth losing one’s head over but Henry never struck me as anything but as a disgusting, reprehensible, odius walrus of a man. It’s hard to picture him as a hottie but then maybe I’ve been reading too much Philippa Gregory!
Bonnie Dee
April 8
2:33 pm
Doesn’t even matter if it’s not historically accurate or JRM is “wrong for the part” as many say. I love it, too! It’s sucks you right in.
Heidi
April 8
3:11 pm
The first season is starting here this month.
I must say, the promo for the show looks pretty good. Not that I have any time for yet another series :D.
Think I’m gonna have to find the time though…that JRM is a good marketing tool
Capo
April 8
3:42 pm
Isn’t Rhys Myers a little small to be playing Henry VIII? Maybe Edward VI, but Henry? C’mon.
Leslie Kelly
April 8
4:12 pm
I’m another big fan! Whew, this week’s–hot hot hot!
And from what i’ve read, Henry wasn’t always the corpulent beast he’s pictured as today. He was supposedly very fit and handsome in his younger years. I kind of think by the time he met Anne he’d started ballooning, but it’s not entirely anachronistic to portray him as such a lick-him-all-over hottie like JRM.
Mrs Giggles
April 8
4:28 pm
As much as I adore JRM, in this one, you can have him but hands off MY Henry Cavill.
Nora Roberts
April 8
5:14 pm
I think, if I remember right, Henry XVIII was pretty hot in his younger years. Very athletic. Developed gout, and could no longer get around as he used to. Got fat.
So we’re most used to seeing him Orson Wellsing, and with a big turkey leg in his fist.
Nora Roberts
April 8
5:15 pm
That would be VIII. Jeez, bad Roman numerals!
Capo
April 8
5:27 pm
Yea, but Henry VIII had reddish hair and was tall even in his younger days. Couldn’t the producers of this show got a hottie that looked more like him? Surely they could have found some hot red haired actor needing a job lol.
Capo
April 8
5:31 pm
Knowing this is a guy we’re talking about while I typed that in gave me the shivers. Think I’ll back out away from this discussion and just leave it to you ladies!
Ames
April 8
5:55 pm
What Nora said! *sigh* If I could just be a sammich between him and Henry Cavill….
Rosemary Laurey
April 8
6:03 pm
Tennis was one of his favorite games- he was also a military genius, an accomplished scholar, musician and liguist and a reknowed theologian- he earned the title “Defender of the Faith’ from the pope.
It’s such a shame that one of England’s great kings is mostly remembered for his marital exploits.
Karen Scott
April 8
7:06 pm
I was greatly amused by your comment Capo.
I don’t care about historical accuracies, JRM is hot as Henry, and that’s the truth.
Liviania
April 8
8:47 pm
Hi, I dropped in here from the brouhaha at DA over HP and Macsomething.
(She deserved that award, most definitely.)
I second not caring about historical accuracy. Well, sometimes I do, but eye candy like JRM makes me not care.
Eve Vaughn
April 8
10:49 pm
This is probably an unpopular opinion but I find JRM creepy. I just can’t get into the Tudors.
Katrina Strauss
April 9
3:51 am
Yeah if Henry looked anything like JRM in his studlier youth, I can easily see losing one’s head over him…
Kayleigh Jamison
April 9
3:57 am
Yep, what everyone else has said. Henry VIII was known to be extremely handsome and physically fit in his younger years. It was after his marriage to Anne Boleyn that he got fat and dopey. He suffered gout in one leg from an old riding accident.
I’m curious to see how far they go with the series, because if they take it to the time of Anne’s execution, he was a fat tool by then.
Yes, there are definite historical inaccuracies in the series. Henry had two sisters, for example, not just one. Some of the events are chronologically out of order as well.
But JRM prancing around naked? I can forgive it.
I love this series. Season two is starting up and I’m beside myself.
Rowena
April 10
4:44 pm
I’m not a big JRM fan on The Tudors..for me it’s ALL ABOUT CHARLES BRANDON, so you can have JRM, I won’t fight you for him but I will get the scrappin’ over Henry Cavill! haha.
Isn’t this show great?