Jodie Turner-Smith to play Anne Boylen in convention-defying British drama series

Deadline

The British model, Jett and Queen & Slim actress, who is Black, will play King Henry VIII's second wife in a three-part Channel 5 series that will examine the downfall of Boleyn through the prism of a psychological thriller. According to Deadline, the drama from Eve Hedderwick Turner "shines a feminist light on the final months of Boleyn’s life, re-imagining her struggle with Tudor England’s patriarchal society, her desire to secure a future for her daughter, Elizabeth, and the brutal reality of her failure to provide Henry with a male heir. I May Destroy You's Paapa Essiedu will co-star with Turner-Smith.