13 thoughts on “Interview With Ninya Mikhaila About The Lost King (2022) & More

  1. I still remember a great presentation by Ninya and Jane on dressing QEI at a conference years ago. Great work.

  2. I love that shot of the hand embroidery in progress, and being able to compare that to the tight shots of the finished piece!

  3. Interesting interview, I would have liked a higher proportion of Ninya’s experience in the conversation. Approve of the feline participation.

  4. Ninya is so great! I’m tickled to learn that there’s a film about Philippa Langley, who always came off as a bit kooky, but the trailer actually looks rather heartwarming. The story is too good to pass up!

    1. Sally Hawkins always seems to play “kooky” so she is right for the role. The movie otherwise looks really good. Richard III is always an interesting subject so I am looking forward to seeing it.

  5. This movie looks very entertaining, but Sally Hawkins looks absolutely nothing like Philippa Langley; she’s a blue-eyed blonde. In fact, she reminds me a little of Joanna Lumley. :)

  6. Great interview and I loved the finished product. It looks fantastic. The tabard style, the embroidery, all good details. I like the gilded parts of the armour as well. Artist Graham Turner, perhaps the preeminent painter of the Wars of the Roses, depicted Richard III wearing completely gilded armour. Tobias Capwell (mentioned in the video) works with Turner and advised him that entirely gilded armour for Richard III was at least “possible”. However, having the couter and poleyn armour (elbows and knees respectively) be gilded and the rest not is a highly common motif in Medieval art and scarcely depicted in recreations, so I think it’s a fine choice. Beautiful.

    Also some interesting points brought up in the discussion. Regarding history versus the other sciences, I had that same debate with a friend of mine who’s a civil engineer, who believes everything has a quantifiable answer. Made me laugh to hear someone else had it.

    I likewise find Richard III and the princes in the Tower an interesting discussion. I just bought the new translation of Domenico Mancini’s De Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium and am looking forward to it. I’ve also read Tim Thornton’s theory and find it based on the flimsiest logic and conclusions. To that end, I’d love to see an adaptation of Sharon Kay Penman’s The Sunne in Splendour. I can’t cosign her conclusions about whodunit, but we’ve had enough Philippa bloody Gregory adaptions; why not adapt fiction from someone who actually cared about history for once?

    1. Also some interesting points brought up in the discussion. Regarding history versus the other sciences, I had that same debate with a friend of mine who’s a civil engineer, who believes everything has a quantifiable answer. Made me laugh to hear someone else had it.

      You’ve had this conversation, too? LOL, it’s such a trip to see how differently people approach life. The unknown doesn’t scare me, in fact, I find it really interesting! But my ex was VERY disturbed by the idea that things weren’t binary/black and white/right or wrong.

    1. Can’t wait for this one! Great story and great actress. Hope it comes to a streaming site soon as it is unlikely to open in my small western town.
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  7. A belated follow-up: the man who designed the armour, Dr Tobias Capwell, was also interviewed. In his interview he gives great insights about the armour, its symbolic significance, and the decision making process in reconstructions. There’s also a very funny anecdote about Lawrence Olivier as Richard III and the dangers of making compromises on movie armour:

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