For Brazilian director Karim Ainouz, the prospect of making a film about King Henry VIII's court was particularly exciting with its focus on Catherine Parr, the wife who survived Henry.
Ainouz, who doesn't have a special connection to England, said his aim was to raise Parr into the spotlight.
"That's been done the other way around so many times," he said, referring to European filmmakers delving into films about colonized countries. He said the Tudor court "felt very Latin." "The pain he was suffering was excruciating," said Jude Law, who plays the king, who endured several chronic conditions.
Law visited a perfume maker to have a scent created that would simulate how Henry would have smelled, including blood, sweat, pus and faecal matter.
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