| 1 | * TheCastShowoff: Creator/TomHiddleston's talent for impressions is put to good use, as he does a pitch perfect Jeremy Irons when Hal imitates his father. |
| 2 | * 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. |
| 3 | * DawsonCasting: |
| 4 | ** Creator/JeremyIrons, age 64, as Henry IV of England, who died at the age of 45. |
| 5 | ** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, 40 at the time, played Richard III from his late teens to his death at 32. |
| 6 | * RealLifeRelative: Father-and-son characters the Earl of Northumberland and 'Hotspur' Percy are played by real-life father and son Alun and Joe Armstrong. |
| 7 | ** 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. |
| 8 | * UnderageCasting: Henry VI lived to be forty-nine, while 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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