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Mark Rylance took ‘significant’ pay cut to get Wolf Hall made, director tells MPs

Second series of BBC drama was initially rejected by all the streaming services, Peter Kosminsky tells inquiry into UK film and TV

Mark Rylance took a “significant” pay cut along with other members of the Wolf Hall team to get the second series made, the director Peter Kosminsky has said. In a submission to MPs in the culture, media and sport committee, for their UK film and quality television inquiry, Kosminsky wrote he offered Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light to “each streamer”, and they turned it down. He added: “It was only possible to begin production when the producer, the writer [Peter Straughan], the director [Kosminsky] and the leading actor [Rylance] all gave up a significant proportion of their fees.

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