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Henry V / Kenneth Branagh[edit]

In the "Early life and education" section, it says, "When she was 16, she attended a production of Henry V starring Kenneth Branagh". This seems odd, as Kenneth Branagh preformed this on stage at RSC Stratford (1984) and on screen (1989).

The article says she was born in 1985. As the stage performance by Branagh was in 1984, she wasn't even born at this point. She could of course just've seen the film when she was 16, but then the wording would be wrong.

The wording is, "attended a production of Henry V starring Kenneth Branagh". "Attended" isn't something one would use when referring to cinema.

A tad pedantic, sure, but something seems incorrect here... she would've been 16 around 2001, and there's no record of Branagh repeating his stage version of Henry V at that time. Charliepenandink (talk) 17:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The source says: Having been acting for only three years, Mulligan is already one of our brightest stars. 'It's like a dream come true,' says the girl who, when she was six years old, was so inconsolable at not being allowed to join her elder brother in a school production of The King and I that she was eventually let into the chorus.

It was only the beginning of a determined battle to get her way. Ten years later, while at Woldingham School in Surrey, she went to see Kenneth Branagh play Henry V. So inspired was she by his performance that she wrote asking him to be her mentor. 'I explained that my parents didn't want me to act, but that I felt it was my vocation in life,' she says. She still has the letter she got back from Branagh's sister saying, 'Kenneth says that if you feel such a strong need to be an actress, you must be an actress.'

That means she remembers seeing it when she was aged 16, so around 1985+16=2001. Branagh appeared in Richard III in 2002 (https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-1/connrev.htm) so I wonder if she mis-recalled the play she’d seen him in. Northernhenge (talk) 19:24, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Weird to confuse two very different kings, but perhaps it was the journalist that got it wrong.

Makes more sense - it just can’t have been Henry V. Yours is an illuminating & rational take on it. Charliepenandink (talk) 20:38, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the name of the play into the reference footnote. --Northernhenge (talk) 13:41, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]