While casting diversity is an admirable goal, it is historical fact that Elizabeth's emissary Lord Randolph (Adrian Lester) was not a black man nor Bess of Hardwick (Gemma Chan) Asian. Who knew Stuart's second husband, Lord Darnley (Jack Lowden), was really a gay man with a flair for cunnilingus? (He was actually a womanizer, described in Mary's own words as 'lusty.') There are so many strange choices made in this film. The book from which Beau Willimon adapts his screenplay, John Guy's 'Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart,' is admired for meticulous research which shed new light on his subject, but the filmmakers take things several steps further, twisting historical fact into incredible movie moments. Stuart was willing to recognize her cousin if her own child was guaranteed succession, but forces both external and internal worked against her, leading to a cruel fate for "Mary Queen of Scots." Theater director Josie Rourke makes her feature debut with a lush historical epic which falters in its bid for contemporary relevance. The women were intrigued by each other, Mary Catholic and wishing to bear an heir to the throne, Elizabeth Protestant and resigned to ruling as a man. Widowed as the French Queen Consort in 1561 at the age of eighteen, Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) resisted remarriage, instead traveling back to Scotland to assume her rightful throne and challenge the rule of her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie).
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