I think I've developed a weird crush on Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall *

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As Thomas Cromwell. Those tortured brown eyes! He's the embodiment of suppressed emotion. But. The weird skull cap and hat combo. Would love to be enveloped in his fur-trimmed cloak however.

Hilary Mantel has done a blinder with the character of Cromwell and Mark Rylance plays him so beautifully.

• Disclaimer, I'm probably ovulating, which accounts for weird crush.

He is mesmerising. I have not really been aware of him until now. I couldn't say I find him physically attractive but there is a quietness and steeliness, a gentleness, warmth, a certainty, a tenderness, determination, a humbleness, a fierceness at times, a charm about the character and his portrayal of him that I just can not take my eyes off. When he wept after Wolsey's daughter turned him down so harshly, I felt really emotional and moved.

I have to tell you all Mark Rylance liked a post of mine on FB last week. I got quite giddy!

I love Mark Rylance in Wolf hall - such a good actor . However I heard him on Desert Island discs some years ago & I am not at all sure I would love him so much in real life - he sounded a bit arrogant and nutty ( My opinion only ) but - that's being an actor isn't it.

Gosh! Did you write something extraordinarily erudite??!

I saw him play Hamlet in the 1980s on a school trip. He was certainly mesmerising 😅

Another one joining the adoring chorus. He is mesmerising although Damian Lewis gives him a run for his money when they share a scene.

Not really, it was a story about Anne Boleyn and how Cromwell had excused himself from court claiming he was ill. Cromwell used those weeks to build a case against Anne Boleyn.
I posted "Four years after Anne Boleyn's execution, Cromwell himself faced the chop".

Tbh MR liked everyone elses posts as well as mine😀

Shh, don't tell anyone that!

And he was of course a fabulous BFG!

Totally confused. I thought Mark Rylance was the luminous toothed Strictly take 2 presenter or second car advert guy ? ! 😁Clearly I’m mistaken - surely

@Growsomeballswoman I have also just googled the Intimacy trailer. Big time fanny flutters here 😳😳

Ohh tell us more!! Why an arse? I can see it, he's very much an ACTOR

Well fancy him as Cromwell, mind!!

Rylance is an extraordinary actor. He can convey so much meaning and emotion while his face barely does anything. So, so talented, I can’t take my eyes off him when he’s on the screen.

I was actually thinking the same thing earlier! And I've only seen the very short trailers of this Wolf Hall thing. Never seen him in anything else. Just these tiny snippets are enough to turn my head 😅

Not weird at all, OP. Compellung performance and utterly fanciable

😅.
Don't want to derail this thread but remind me to tell you sometime when Henry Cavill also liked a post of mine.......

I'm not going to watch the last episode. It would be a rerun of when my Ddad took me to see A tale of Two Cities at the cinema. I had an enormous crush on Dirk Bogarde and Ddad had no idea how the story ended. He had to cope with 9 year old me having hysterics. Mother was not pleases.

Quite. I can't see it myself.

I don't like his dull, trembly voice, it's always a monotone and slightly strangled. I can't see the attraction, but we're all different.
Damian Lewis as Henry, however! What a tour de force. Utterly compelling.

I've always had a thing about Mark Rylance!

I ADORE him, those lovely crinkly eyes and cheeky smile. Haven't seen anything I don't like him in.

Check out the RADA website picture when he was younger 🤭

I find Mark Rylance as an actor a bit of a PITA but my god Cromwell would get it.

Quite.

I had a crush on him from series one. Made watching Bing a bit weird, with Flop’s voice making me go weak at the knees.

Another fan here. Think he's brilliant.