– Wolf Hall and Music –
Damian appeared on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, November 10, 2024 to discuss tonight’s BBC 1 premiere of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light and reprising his role as the troubled and tyrant King Henry VIII.
Damian shares that Henry VIII is ever-more disillusioned by the people around him and the tragic arc of the final installment of the series is watching how Thomas Cromwell loses his Midas touch with the King.
He said: “In 1529, he (Henry) set up his reformation Parliament, and it was essentially a way in which every whim of his, every impulse, whatever it was, was legitimized through the legislative power of Parliament. And that was his reformation court, it enabled him to separate from Rome, essentially do what he wanted to do.”
He also spoke about his debut album Mission Creep and how he started making music, he said:
“Essentially, I was a busker. I used to busk a lot. “I had a motorbike. I had a tent. I used to go around Europe in the summers and I used to play on the streets, me and an acoustic guitar, and I’ve written an album in that vein.”
When asked if his song ‘Wanna Grow Old in Paris’ was speaking about McCrory, he said:
“I am. Yeah, you don’t need to be Sherlock to work that out. Yes, a lot of it (the album) was influenced by Helen and that song in particular, it’s exactly that. She grew up – she was a teenager in Paris.”
Host Laura and Damian also discussed Band of the Brothers and the importance of Remembrance Sunday in the UK, as both can be seen wearing a poppy pin during the interview. Damian discussed the importance of remembering history:
“I was asked to go over and unveil a leadership statue in the name of Major Richard Winters, the character I played in Band of Brothers, who was a very humble man, and he [Winters] said, ‘Well I don’t mind there being a leadership statue but we absolutely can’t call it the Dick Winters leadership statue because there were thousands of brilliant, heroic men who fought and I don’t want to be singled out.’”
Watch Damian’s segment at about 1:01:55 in the video below:
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