Wolf Hall is No 2 in our end-of-year roundup. Here,the director talks approximately his nerves on showing Hilary Mantel the rough cuts, filming the most powerful moment of his career, and spending £30000 on beeswax candlesCongratulations … Wolf Hall is up for three Golden Globes and is many people’s TV series of the year. Are you surprised that a slow,spare, complex, and candlelit chronicle approximately the Tudors,with an ending we already knew, has proved such a hit? The scale of the audience surprised me. When we started, and Wolf Hall was a fairly esoteric project. It was always going to be demanding: slow,political, with a lot of talking and not much action. I thought it would attract a small audience and was totally unprepared when we broke BBC2 box-office records and peaked at an audience of six million.
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Source: theguardian.com