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Les Mis singer Colm hits right note for Tudors
Ken Sweeney
He's the Irish star of Phantom of The Opera and Les Misérables who lent his voice to some of the biggest musicals on Broadway and the West End.
But Colm Wilkinson is about to cross swords with Jonathan Rhys Meyers when he appears in the next hit TV3 series, The Tudors.
The Sunday Tribune has learned that Wicklow-born Wilkinson (64) will don bodice and corset to play Lord Thomas Darcy in the latest instalment of the show which is currently in production at Ardmore Studios in Bray, Co Wicklow.
The Tudors' Executive Producer Morgan O'Sullivan said "Colm will play Lord Darcy, who was a friend of the King's father. He's a well-liked and well-regarded character in the royal household of King Henry VIII."
However, this all ends when Wilkinson's Lord Darcy becomes part of a Catholic plot to unseat the King, played by Rhys Meyers – a struggle which is a major plot theme in The Tudors' third series.
Wilkinson's long association with fellow Bray man Morgan O'Sullivan, as well as his Canadian citizenship, helped him land the role in the Emmy-winning TV series, which is now showing in 84 countries.
Morgan O'Sullivan said "I was able to get Colm involved because it's an Irish Canadian co-production. I told the head of CBC in Canada that I knew just the Canadian for the part. Of course I meant Colm."
June 29, 2008
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