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Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie went head-to-head for the best actress at this year's Oscars and both lost to Frances McDormand. Soon the two rans will fight on the big screen like royal kings in the sumptuous biopic "Mary Queen of Scots". The first trailer of the film has just been released.
Ronan, who was born in the Bronx of Irish parents and emigrated to Ireland when she was 3, takes the title role, while Australian Robbie plays Queen Elizabeth I, a role that has won a Oscar for Judi Dench ("Shakespeare in Love") and two nominations for Cate Blanchett ("Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"). Under a curly red wig and a pure white makeup, Ms. Robbie is almost unrecognizable here.
The sixteenth-century throne game that took place between these two queens has been described several times before; 1971 film "Mary, Queen of Scots" portrayed Vanessa Redgrave as the incumbent Protestant leader, Glenda Jackson being her Catholic competitor. Ms. Redgrave got an Oscar nomination, while Ms. Jackson had to be satisfied with a nod of the Golden Globe
. This latest version could find an echo among feminists. The trailer portrays a member of the Patriarchate deploring the idea that "the wise serve the whims of women," while Mary assures Elizabeth: "I know your heart has more heart than the men who advise you.
Mary Queen of Scots "was directed by Josie Rourke, who will leave next year as Artistic Director of the influential Donmar Warehouse Theater in London, and adapted from John Guy's biography by Beautiful Willimon, no stranger to the palace intrigue of his days, Netflix's "House of Cards" political series The new film is released on December 7.
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