While delivering a message of hope to the nation, the Queen acknowledged the changing religious landscape amid the Covid-19 pandemic, saying it provides the faithful with an opportunity to “slow down, pause and reflect”. In her message, broadcast at 8pm on Sunday 5th...
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I wasn’t particularly flattered by Pope Francis comparisons, says Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce has admitted he “wasn’t particularly flattered” when he was compared to Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio when he was announced as the new pope.
Pictures showing the duo side by side circulated on the internet when the Argentine religious leader ascended to the papacy to become Pope Francis.
Now Pryce is playing him in a new Netflix film, The Two Popes, but says he was not thrilled they were compared back in 2013.
He told the PA news agency: “I wasn’t particularly flattered, he’s not what I see in the mirror when I look there.
“But the internet was full of the two images and even to the point where one of my sons called me and said, ‘Daddy, are you the pope?’
“It went on from there. I would like to think it wasn’t just because I look a bit like him that I got the part, I like to think that 47 years work isn’t wasted.”
The Two Popes is released in UK cinemas today, Friday 29th November, and will be available on Netflix from 20th December.
Picture: Jonathan Pryce (Ian West/PA).
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