‘Marie Antoinette’ star: ‘Let them eat cake’ was ‘fake news’
nypost.comThe Favourite”). Set in the eighteenth century, the drama follows the famous last Queen of France (Schüle) beginning with her teenage years, as she’s sent from her home in Austria to France, in order to marry the awkward Louis XVI (Louis Cunningham), who won’t talk to her and doesn’t appear to bathe.
She’s a fish out of water in Versailles, struggling to understand their way of life and deal with court intrigue, while Louis XV (James Purefoy, “Rome”) rules. “It changed my view on her entirely,” said Schüle, who is German and is based in Berlin. “I do think that there is a very wrong image out there about her.
She’s so much more complex than what people think. That’s something we’re really getting into on our show. The overall image of her is that she was this luxury addict who spent a lot of money, big hair, nice dresses.
And yes, she was that. But why? If you look at the circumstances, she left her home country when she was 14, never saw her mom again.
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