1 week Ago By Alex Doyle
TWO former child actors have joined the cast of Wolf Hall's long-awaited return. After nine years away the hit show makes its comeback on BBC One this Sunday night. The critically acclaimed show's next series - called Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - is once again based on Dame Hilary Mantel 's best-selling books.
Actor Mark Rylance will reprise his role as the shrewd main character Thomas Cromwell as he navigates his way through the treacherous Tudor court. But also joining the cast for series two his Harry Potter's Harry Melling and Love Actually's Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Thomas, now 34, plays the role of Ralf Sadler, Cromwell's chief clerk, having been trained by him since he was seven.
Ryan - who played Dudley Dursley in Harry Potter - will star as Thomas Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton. At the end of the first series viewers watched as Anne Boelyn was executed, after Cromwell had backed her to be Queen. Despite scooping a Bafta and its raging popularity, the show hasn't been commissioned since 2015 .
Teasing what viewers can expect from the next instalment, Director Peter Kosminsky said: "The Mirror and the Light picks up exactly where Wolf Hall ended, with the execution of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. "I'm overjoyed to be able to reunite the extraordinary cast we were lucky enough to assemble for Wolf Hall led by the brilliant Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, with the original creative team of Gavin Finney (DOP), Pat Campbell (Designer) and Joanna Eatwell (Costume Designer). "We are all determined to complete what we started – and to honour the final novel written by one of the greatest literary figures of our age, Hilary Mantel.
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