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O'Toole Goes Papal for Tudors
This is one role that won't earn Peter O'Toole an Oscar nomination.
The veteran actor has signed on to play Pope Paul III in the second season of Showtime's The Tudors. His character will face off against Jonathan Rhys Meyers' Henry VIII in a retelling of the religious showdown that led to the king's excommunication in 1538.
"Peter O'Toole is the holy grail for The Tudors," Showtime Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt told Daily Variety. "We needed someone of enormous stature to play Pope Paul III, who faced off against Henry VIII in his bid to get his divorce from Katherine of Aragon. Henry's defiance of the pope and his break with the Roman Catholic Church is one of the great turning points in the history of the world."
Though O'Toole has appeared in television miniseries before, earning an Emmy for 1999's Joan of Arc, the seven-episode Tudors run will mark his first recurring role. The 74-year-old thesp is slated to film his episodes later this year for broadcast next spring.
O'Toole has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, but has yet to win for Best Actor, though he was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2003. He earned his most recent nomination for last year's Venus.
The Tudors debuted on Showtime in April, drawing an impressive 870,000 viewers for its premiere episode.
The first season concludes Sunday, as sexual tension builds between the doomed Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer) and Henry VIII, the man over whom she will eventually lose her head.
The second season is currently in production in Dublin.
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