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** There was also much reportage on Creator/BenedictCumberbatch's Plantagenet descent, which also makes him a distant relative of UsefulNotes/RichardIII, the man he portrays.

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* DawsonCasting: Creator/JeremyIrons, Age 64, as Henry IV of England, who died at the age of 45.

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** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, 40 at the time, played Richard III from his late teens to his death at 32.
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* PlayingGertrude: Creator/BenedictCumberbatch is one year older than Creator/SamTroughton, yet his character Richard is the younger brother of the latter's Clarence.
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* PlayingGertrude: Creator/BenedictCumberbatch is one year older than Creator/SamTroughton, yet his character Richard is the younger brother of the latter's Clarence.
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* DawsonCasting: Creator/JeremyIrons, Age 64, as Henry IV of England, who died at the age of 45.
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* UnderageCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, while Tom Sturridge was thirty-one when he played the Lancastrian King. That said, Sturridge's youthful looks did help to emphasize Henry VI's [[IncorruptiblePurePureness characteristic naivete/inexperience as king]]--albeit this being Shakespeare, [[{{Deconstruction}} it was not supposed to be a good thing]].

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* UnderageCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, while Tom Sturridge Creator/TomSturridge was thirty-one when he played the Lancastrian King. That said, Sturridge's youthful looks did help to emphasize Henry VI's [[IncorruptiblePurePureness characteristic naivete/inexperience as king]]--albeit this being Shakespeare, [[{{Deconstruction}} it was not supposed to be a good thing]].

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* ActorAllusion: Adrian Dunbar here plays Richard of York, father of George, Duke of Clarence. In Film/RichardIII he played Clarence's murderer.



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** Father-and-son characters the Earl of Northumberland and 'Hotspur' Percy are played by real-life father and son Alun and Joe Armstrong.
** Husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox play the Earl of Clifford and Anne Neville respectively. There is grim/hilarious subtext in realizing Richard III killed Clifford's actor and married his RealLife wife.

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* RealLifeRelative:
** Father-and-son characters the Earl of Northumberland and 'Hotspur' Percy are played by real-life father and son Alun and Joe Armstrong.
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CreatorCouple: Husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox play the Earl of Clifford and Anne Neville respectively. There is grim/hilarious subtext in realizing Richard III killed Clifford's actor and married his RealLife wife.wife.
* RealLifeRelative: Father-and-son characters the Earl of Northumberland and 'Hotspur' Percy are played by real-life father and son Alun and Joe Armstrong.
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* ActorAllusion: Adrian Dunbar here plays Richard of York, father of George, Duke of Clarence. In Film/RichardIII he played Clarence's murderer.
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* TheCastShowoff: Tom Hiddleston's talent for impressions is put to good use, as he does a pitch perfect Jeremy Irons when Hal imitates his father.

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* TheCastShowoff: Tom Hiddleston's Creator/TomHiddleston's talent for impressions is put to good use, as he does a pitch perfect Jeremy Irons when Hal imitates his father.

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* DawsonCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, Tom Sturridge was thirty-one when he played the Lancastrian King.




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* UnderageCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, while Tom Sturridge was thirty-one when he played the Lancastrian King. That said, Sturridge's youthful looks did help to emphasize Henry VI's [[IncorruptiblePurePureness characteristic naivete/inexperience as king]]--albeit this being Shakespeare, [[{{Deconstruction}} it was not supposed to be a good thing]].
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* CastingGag: Andrew Scott plays French King Louis in the second season, meaning he is the counterpart to Benedict Cumberbatch's eventual King Richard III. Both, of course, played Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in [[{{Series/Sherlock}} the BBC series]].
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** Husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox play the Earl of Clifford and Anne Neville respectively.

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** Husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox play the Earl of Clifford and Anne Neville respectively.
respectively. There is grim/hilarious subtext in realizing Richard III killed Clifford's actor and married his RealLife wife.
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** Husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox play the Earl of Clifford and Anne Neville respectively.

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** Husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox play the Earl of Clifford and Anne Neville respectively.respectively.

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* CastingGag: Andrew Scott plays French King Louis in the second season, meaning he is the counterpart to Benedict Cumberbatch's eventual King Richard III. Both, of course, played Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in [[{{Series/Sherlock}} the BBC series]].



* CastingGag: Andrew Scott plays French King Louis in the second season, meaning he is the counterpart to Benedict Cumberbatch's eventual King Richard III. Both, of course, played Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in [[{{Series/Sherlock}} the BBC series]].

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* RealLifeRelative: Father-and-son characters the Earl of Northumberland and 'Hotspur' Percy are played by real-life father and son Alun and Joe Armstrong.

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Father-and-son characters the Earl of Northumberland and 'Hotspur' Percy are played by real-life father and son Alun and Joe Armstrong.Armstrong.
** Husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox play the Earl of Clifford and Anne Neville respectively.
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* DawsonCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, Tom Sturridge was thirty-one when he played the Lancastrian King.

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* DawsonCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, Tom Sturridge was thirty-one when he played the Lancastrian King.King.
* RealLifeRelative: Father-and-son characters the Earl of Northumberland and 'Hotspur' Percy are played by real-life father and son Alun and Joe Armstrong.
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* CastingGag: Andrew Scott plays French King Louis in the second season, meaning he is the counterpart to Benedict Cumberbatch's eventual King Richard III. Both, of course, played Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in [[{{Series/Sherlock}} the BBC series]].
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* TheCastShowoff: Tom Hiddleston's talent for impressions is put to good use, as he does a pitch perfect Jeremy Irons when Hal imitates his father.

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* TheCastShowoff: Tom Hiddleston's talent for impressions is put to good use, as he does a pitch perfect Jeremy Irons when Hal imitates his father.father.
* DawsonCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, Tom Sturridge was thirty-one when he played the Lancastrian King.
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* TheCastShowoff: Tom Hiddleston's talent for impressions is put to good use, as he does a pitch perfect Jeremy Irons when Hal imitates his father.

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