‘The Serpent Queen’ Stars Tease Catherine De Medici’s ‘Shocking’ Story & ‘Biggest Challenge’

The Serpent Queen is each astir Catherine de Medici, and the STARZ bid explores the beingness of 1 of France’s astir almighty and longest-serving rulers. The amusement begins successful Catherine’s teen years, and the quality is played by Liv Hill. As the years spell by, Samantha Morton steps into the role.

Samantha Morton arsenic Catherine de Medici. (STARZ)

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Samantha, who admitted that what intrigued her the astir astir Catherine’s communicative “was the information that we don’t truly cognize astir her. This is simply a humanities fig that were not talked astir successful schools, really. I accidental if you’re doing similar a past major, and you privation to specialize successful France from 1530 to immoderate you mightiness cognize astir it, but really, successful society, we don’t cognize astir her. But we cognize astir Napoleon. We cognize astir Henry VIII. We cognize astir each these different men successful history, but we didn’t cognize astir her.”

Throughout her life, Catherine was susceptible of motivation compromises successful the sanction of survival. So, does Samantha presumption Catherine arsenic a hero oregon an anti-hero?

“Everyone’s a leader of their ain stories,” Samantha said. “I deliberation the information that she survived to the constituent wherever we get to marque that a portion of the amusement is incredible. It’s truly incredible. I find her communicative compelling and shocking. This thought that everything she went through, and past she inactive carried connected ruling but not for ego oregon narcissism. There’s a immense magnitude of conscionable trying to support satellite bid successful effect and managing the satellite stage. I mean, sadly, it’s each excessively often that its men that are those people, but actually, historically, women were successful complaint of that arsenic well.”

During Catherine’s younger years, she’s thrown into the French tribunal and has to unafraid her place. Catherine had been “physically, emotionally abused her full life” anterior to coming to court, Liv explained to HollywoodLife.

“Her biggest situation is survival,” Liv revealed. “But successful bid to survive, she has to nutrient an heir. For galore reasons, that proves very, precise difficult. I accidental my episodes absorption connected however does she unafraid her spot erstwhile she hasn’t got a babe to unafraid her position?”

Despite being truthful young, young Catherine wasn’t wholly unprepared for the manipulations and deceits of the French court.

“She was ever alert, ever connected the lookout, ever speechmaking into people’s assemblage language, ever being reserved, and holding her cards close,” Liv said. “I accidental thing could person prepared her for the antithetic powerfulness play successful the court, but she had that affectional quality to ever beryllium connected the lookout for danger.”

Liv Hill arsenic young Catherine de Medici. (STARZ)

However, young Catherine is inactive precise susceptible successful those teenage years. The bid dives heavy into the affectional complexities of Catherine, alternatively than conscionable producing the emblematic surface-level play drama.

“I deliberation that’s truly important to spot successful a play play arsenic good due to the fact that erstwhile you deliberation of history, a batch of america lone tin notation to textbooks, wherever everything is precise detached emotionally,” Liv told HollywoodLife. “Even erstwhile we spot a batch of play dramas connected screen, it is rather reserved, detached, devoid of emotion. So to spot emotions rather freely expressed, particularly erstwhile it comes to rejection and unreciprocated love, which is truthful painful… I deliberation for me, adjacent though she’s been emotionally and physically abused her full life, the astir achy happening is that unrequited emotion from Henry, which I deliberation is rather common.” The Serpent Queen volition aerial Sundays connected STARZ.