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Tom Holland cut from Anne Boleyn beheading as BBC disguises nine-year wait for Wolf Hall sequel
Holland, now one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, was an unknown when he appeared as Cromwell's son Gregory in the original Wolf Hall back in 2015
The BBC has cut Spider-Man star Tom Holland from a crucial scene in the first series of Wolf Hall to get around the fact he couldn’t be in the sequel which starts tonight. Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light, again with Sir Mark Rylance as Cromwell and Damian Lewis as Henry VIII, begins at the very moment the last series ended with the bloody execution of Queen Anne Boleyn. The BBC’s decision to reshoot his Wolf Hall scene will lead to speculation he was simply too expensive for the sequel, which also stars Sir Jonathan Pryce, Dame Harriet Walter and Alex Jennings.
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