It wasn’t the swords. It wasn’t the sandals. For Rufus Sewell, the tough part was all the stinkin’ mud. Playing a 12th-century stonemason in mega miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, premiering tonight on Starz at 10/9c, meant maintaining “a level of grime on my neck consistent with that of your typical farm animal,” he says.
A small price, indeed, for what’s shaping up to be the armor-clanking, leech-sucking, monks-a-poppin’ drama of the summer. Pillars, based on Ken Follett’s doorstop of a best-seller (all 973 pages of it), about the quest to build a Gothic cathedral in a fictional England of yore, runs eight hours over six Friday nights…
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The Pillars of the Earth
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They really don’t make them like this anymore. And we’re not talking about 12th-century Gothic cathedrals. The Pillars of the Earth, a sprawling historical melodrama based on Ken Follett’s mammoth bestseller, conjures nostalgic memories of the days of yore, way back in the 20th century, when networks devoted entire weeks to “event” miniseries like Shogun, The Winds of War, The Thorn Birds, Lonesome Dove, to name a memorable few—although in this case, North and South is the best comparison…
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