Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis return to lead the cast of Wolf Hall on the BBC, which is coming back for a second series titled The Mirror and the Light. The first series aired all the way back in 2015 with it being an adaptation of two of Hilary Mantel's novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. It followed a fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII.
The Mirror and the Light will be an adaptation of Mantel's final book in her trilogy of the same name. Speaking with the Radio Times about the show's return, director Peter Kosminsky said: "The Mirror and the Light picks up exactly where Wolf Hall ended, with the execution of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. "I'm overjoyed to be able to reunite the extraordinary cast we were lucky enough to assemble for Wolf Hall, led by the brilliant Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, with the original creative team of Gavin Finney (DOP), Pat Campbell (Designer) and Joanna Eatwell (Costume Designer).
"We are all determined to complete what we started – and to honour the final novel written by one of the greatest literary figures of our age, Hilary Mantel." Speaking about revisiting the show after such a lengthy hiatus, executive producer Colin Callender said: "Returning to Wolf Hall after ten years was like revisiting old friends. "We'd lived with these characters who are so vibrant and jumped off the screen in the first season, so coming back to them ten years later was .
