![]() ![]() Though he is still married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry is charmed by Mary. The king's procession gallops through a Tudor village full of warty peasants, who are hard at work grimly foreshadowing Anne's fate by hacking at big lumps of meat with heavy cleavers. ![]() Eric Bana as Henry and Scarlett Johansson as Mary in The Other Boleyn Girl They're all very pretty but, unfortunately, between the three of them, exude as much sizzling sexual chemistry as a pile of rocks. Natalie Portman as Anne, Scarlett Johansson as Mary, and Eric Bana as Henry VIII. ![]() ![]() The film's portrayal of this Boleyn girl as a shy, blushing damsel could hardly be further from the truth. Chucked out of France by his irritated wife, Mary sashayed back to England and casually notched up her second kingly conquest. Rather ungallantly, François called her "my hackney", explaining that she was fun to ride. In real life, by the time Mary Boleyn started her affair with Henry, she had already enjoyed a passionate liaison with his great rival, King François I of France. Those daughters are manipulative vixen Anne and wide-eyed ingénue Mary. The Boleyn family are a bunch of scheming social climbers, preparing to prostitute their daughters to the king to improve their station. Scarlett Johansson as Mary, Mark Rylance as Sir Thomas and Natalie Portman as Anne in The Other Boleyn Girl ![]()
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