Wolf Hall director says Mark Rylance took ‘significant’ pay cut after streamers rejected series Show was rejected by streamers as director outlined importance of British stories.
Wolf Hall star Mark Rylance took a “significant” pay cut for series two after the BBC drama was rejected by the big streamers.
Peter Kosminsky, the series’ director, gave evidence to Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee this week as he revealed how sacrifices had been made to give viewers a second run of the popular show, which aired in December.
In the written submission Kosminsky revealed that production had begun on the Golden Globe-winning series only after “the producer, the writer, the director and the leading actor all gave up a significant proportion of their fees”.
Rylance plays Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, a series based on the book by Hilary Mantel.
