Stage Beauty (2004) Part 6/11

It's the 1660s, and Edward 'Ned' Kynaston is England's most celebrated leading lady. Women are forbidden to appear on stage and Ned profits, using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own. But King Charles II is tired of seeing the same old performers in the same old tragedies. Since no one will take him up on his suggestion to improve Othello with a couple of good jokes, he decides to liven the royal palate by allowing real women to tread the boards. In a slightly less progressive spirit, he rules that men may no longer play women's parts.

This is good news for the monarch's mistress, the saucy, stage-struck Nell Gwyn.
It is also good news for Maria, Kynaston's lovelorn young dresser who has been secretly performing at a seedy tavern in lavish costumes borrowed from her employer.
It is very bad news for Ned, who plummets from his exalted position as one of London's most desirable females to become a virtual nobody, virtually overnight. Cast out of the spotlight, Ned seems headed for burlesque obscurity until Maria, now a rising star, takes it upon herself to make a man of him again.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Richard Eyre
• BBC Films
• Jeffrey Hatcher
• drama
• Derek Hutchinson
• Mark Letheren
• Claire Danes
• Billy Crudup
• Tom Wilkinson
• Ben Chaplin
• Hugh Bonneville
• Jack Kempton
• Alice Eve
• Fenella Woolgar
• David Westhead
• Nick Barber
• Stephen Marcus
• Richard Griffiths
• Zoe Tapper
• Rupert Everett
• Edward Fox
• Tom Hollander
• Nancy Chandler
• Joyia Fitch
• Sean Francis George

[librermonami]

That was one quick blow job,true professional that Nell. I love her.

[CrazyGood88]

If it did not click Kynaston she was saying she loved you! ugh...

[CrazyGood88]

@ers123gh I like that point. interesting.

[ers123gh]

@CrazyGood88 i think he did allways know she was in love with him, though he never returned the feeling, but forgot it in his jelousy and fear that she was taking his place.

[ers123gh]

@searchanswers Charles II's wife was Catherine of Braganza

[ers123gh]

@xxzerawriotxx well to be fair to her she didn't have any other way of gaining power at that time and its not like she could have refused to be his mistress he's the king if he wanted her he got her. personally i think the blokes who made them into "whores" are way more repellant

[CrazyGood88]

@xyPERSON True...I just hated how he was so clueless as to see her pain. I know that feeling and it is agonizing.

[xyPERSON]

@CrazyGood88 Don't be so hard on the guy.He was still recovering from the vicious beating he took at the hands of hired thugs.

[Varney86]

@searchanswers Nope Nell Gwyn was his mistress, not wife. 

[PornLoverToo]

Claire Danes tits 5:50 

[lilmizzy2008]

@searchanswers no she's not she's his mistress! says near the end in part 5!