Dan Jones

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This is History: The Tudors · Paul Greengrass: Turning Andrew Garfield Into a Medieval Rebel · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Or it's, you know...

I always try and say in our conversations, are we serving the film first, the story first, and is this going to jar?

Obviously, it would be strange if we had Watt Tyler turning up to lead the revolt driving a Porsche 911.

Yeah.

Right?

but we need to live within this world and i wonder if you can just say a few words from the perspective of somebody who's made a lot of movies about how what goes through your head as you make those decisions and and what role the history the facts are playing within the whole broad spectrum of making a movie

are the two

It's just

You're going to

set of extras every day coming in to be in person.

Or some of them will be the same, but

then what they got instead was London thrown into chaos with the first popular rebellionist country scene.

Well, I suppose what we're talking about here is that eternal question of the space that lies between facts and truth and what that means is, in many ways, the core of historical filmmaking.

And

allow it just to be Blamange

other.

The duality between the conspiracy and the Blamange is one that I think I will definitely take away.

Paul, I could talk to you about these topics for hours upon hours.

We are going to close this episode here, but listeners can come back on This Is History Plus to hear a little more of Paul and I in conversation when we talk about Paul's favourite historical films.

So,

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