BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / The Hollow Crown

**Posted by Davina** July 21, 2012 7:48 pm

Just watching The Hollow Crown Henry V with Tom Hiddlestone. Shakespeare at its best! The BBC is wonderful at producing such fantastic productions.

**Posted by Davina** July 21, 2012 9:25 pm

Oh my god! If you EVER get the chance to see this do so. Utterly brilliant, traumatic, sad and wonderful. I cannot recommend this production more highly.

**Posted by SusiGo** July 21, 2012 9:35 pm

Thanks for the hint, Davina, I loved Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, must have a look at this one.

**Posted by Davina** July 23, 2012 7:09 pm

Some piccies:

www.whosay.com/twhiddleston/photos/205513

www.whosay.com/twhiddleston/photos/205125

I must say how they kept his grey (i.e. white) horse looking so clean was very impressive too. Look carefully at the gloves he is wearing as well.

**Posted by besleybean** October 7, 2012 5:12 pm

Fabulous and I'm a huge Hiddleston fan.

**Posted by veecee** October 7, 2012 5:32 pm

Don't know as we've gotten The Hollow Crown in the US, yet anyway. Anyone know?

Kenneth Brannaugh's Hamlet -- one of my favorite movies. Liked his Henry, too.

**Posted by SusiGo** October 7, 2012 5:35 pm

I like his Henry very much, even more than Hamlet. And when my daughter read Much Ado at school we watched the film together.

**Posted by Davina** October 7, 2012 6:19 pm

This is coming out on DVD according to Tom on his Twitter (yes he is on Twitter and yes it really is him). Keep your eyes peeled folks. His performance is a.maz.ing!

**Posted by hepzibah** October 7, 2012 6:34 pm

He really is so very, very pretty, isn't he? Hmm

I follow him on Twitter, he has a song of the day, but not every day, and also spouts poetry.

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**Posted by besleybean** October 7, 2012 6:51 pm

I follow and love him
Is he tweeting again?
He suddenly seemed to go quiet.
Maybe just busy.

**Posted by Sam** October 8, 2012 12:38 am

Huge Tom fan!

I liked the performances but I'm not a big Shakespeare fan. Just watched it for Tom.

veecee - The DVDs are coming out in the UK but if you can't watch on your player, download. I torrented mine...

I follow him on twitter too, Yes, he's so poetic isn't he? I've downloaded many of his songs of the day

I think he's gone mostly quiet because he's filming Thor 2 right now.

**Posted by Sammy** October 14, 2012 10:45 pm

I thought about watching it because I see it all over my tumblr... and because Tom is in it.
Never knew if it was any good, though. But that sounds very nice!
So I will add it to my "to watch"-list but it might take some time until I'll get to it. ;)

**Posted by Davina** November 18, 2013 6:25 am

This is the Hollow Crown thread referred to in Thor:The Dark World. Seriously, if you have not watched this fantastic piece of Shakespeare you should. You really, really should. Even if you are not really into Shakespeare.

**Posted by besleybean** November 18, 2013 7:11 am

They're all good, but I doubt you'll ever see a performance to match Ben Whishaw's Richard II.

**Posted by SusiGo** November 18, 2013 7:31 am

I will borrow the DVD set from a friend who was totally enthusiastic about Richard II but less so about the other films. Looking forward to it very much.

**Posted by besleybean** November 18, 2013 8:08 am

Both Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston are also great and indeed Rory Kinnear and also Simon...er. whatever his name is! Oh Simon Russell Beale, is it?!

**Posted by SolarSystem** November 18, 2013 10:33 am

We watched Henry V yesterday - and I know, that's not watching it in the right order, but my boyfriend's English isn't all that good and he knows Henry V by heart, so he agreed to watch it with me.
I'll watch Richard II and Henry IV in the next few days, I guess.. I loved Tom's King and I can't wait to see him in Henry IV when he's still wild and untamed. I already saw a scene when he's slapped in the face by his father (Jeremy Irons)... wow. Just wow.

And I wish one of the German TV stations would buy this, because it's just brilliant (like so many BBC productions...), even if your not such a huge fan of Shakespeare.

**Posted by Mary Me** November 18, 2013 2:27 pm

*silent sobbing*
I need this. It's definitely going to be on my wish list for christmas.

**Posted by Davina** November 23, 2013 9:30 pm

Ask for a nice box of tissues to go with it!

**Posted by Maggi13** December 4, 2013 3:06 pm

Just ordered my DVD.
I just love Tom, Benedict and he are just such brilliant actors.
So I persume it is wise to buy a few tissues to go along with it?
Just can't wait