The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

David Morrissey: The Duke of Norfolk

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• The Duke of Norfolk : You better get used to talking about it, when you sleep with the king it ceases to be a private matter.

• Sir Thomas Boleyn : [regarding the punishment for Anne's secret marriage]  You will be sent to France and stay there until you've learned your lesson.

  Anne Boleyn : What? No! Father, please!

  Sir Thomas Boleyn : How can you have done this? You knew full well that Mary's friendship with the king is at an extremely delicate state! Any scandal, any mark upon her name could be fatal!

  The Duke of Norfolk : You will be sent to join the court of the French queen and stay there until your father has forgiven you.

  Anne Boleyn : [crying, runs into the hall where Mary is waiting]  You told them didn't you?

  Mary Boleyn : It was for your own good. You never would have gotten away with it. It would have ruined your prospects forever.

  Anne Boleyn : [still crying]  Really? For my good? Well, I'll try to remind myself of that while I'm in exile, and you're here in the king's bed, not challenged for our father's affection! That it was for my good and not yours!

  [running down the hall, leaving Mary] 

  Mary Boleyn : Anne!

• The Duke of Norfolk : Damn you! Not a single detail was left to chance! And now the moment of our greatest glory...!

  Anne Boleyn : Glory? What glory? A mistress gave a man a bastard, no more.

  The Duke of Norfolk : A male bastard, a son!

  Anne Boleyn : The queen may yet give birth to a son.

  The Duke of Norfolk : The queen no longer bleeds!

  Anne Boleyn : Can you be sure?

  The Duke of Norfolk : One of her physicians, and the moment this family provides him with a son he turned his back to it on your account! You better have a plan, girl! And that plan better work!

  Anne Boleyn : Or what, uncle?

  Lady Elizabeth : Enough, both of you! And what about Mary, hum? And her child? Or have you forgotten about them already?

  Anne Boleyn : Mary and her bastard child will go back to the country. It is the king's wish... and mine.

  Lady Elizabeth : Very well, and you can be the one to tell her. I think you've earned that privilege.

• Sir Thomas Boleyn : The king has secured for you a position in the queen's household

  Mary Boleyn : But I don't want to go to court, nor does my husband

  William Carey : The king has also offered me a position, as a gentleman of the Privy Council

  Sir Thomas Boleyn : You hear that Mary? Privy Council, tending upon his Majesty himself

  Mary Boleyn : What about our future in the country?

  The Duke of Norfolk : Oh, you must put that out of your mind. From now on your future is at court.

  Mary Boleyn : William please, don't you understand what this means? They'll seperate us, put me in different accommadation where the king can always find me

  The Duke of Norfolk : Happily your husband understands the value of such an oppurtunity, for us all

• The Duke of Norfolk : It is difficult time, Thomas. The King and Queen, once happily married, now barely speak. The failure to provide a male heir has consumed them. The Queen has lost yet another child, a boy. I imagine it won't be long before he seeks solace with a mistress.

• The Duke of Norfolk : Now our work begins. It's one thing to catch a king, quite another to keep him. She must be well-read, know her music, excel in company, and she must be clean.

  Sir Thomas Boleyn : Anne will see to it.

  Lady Elizabeth : See to what? Mary is already all of these things. Thanks to the education I have given her. And for what? She may be traded like cattle for the advancement and amusement of men?

• The Duke of Norfolk : Did he have you?

  Mary Boleyn : Yes.

  William Stafford : More than once?

  The Duke of Norfolk : You better get used to talking about it. When you sleep with the King, it ceases to be a private matter.

  Mary Boleyn : Yes, more than once.

  The Duke of Norfolk : And was he satisfied?

  Mary Boleyn : I believe so.

  The Duke of Norfolk : Did he say so?

  Mary Boleyn : He did not need to, Uncle.

• The Duke of Norfolk : Now that Mary is lying-in, the King will no longer bed her. Out of compassion, he'll visit her every day for, what, a week? The Queen will have his head spinning with pretty little Spanish things. Not to mention the Seymours and that milky-faced girl of theirs. We must influence him in our favor with whatever means we have. Yes?

  Sir Thomas Boleyn : Well, I - I was going to suggest - Anne.