Jude Law plays the tyrant Henry VIII of England in the film Firebrand. Law was helped by a perfume specially created for him to enter the mood of the tyrant.

The ending of the film (it will be released in Italy with Vertice 360) is rather anti-historical, but, the director replies, "it doesn't matter". For Alicia Vikander, doing justice to the value and historical scope of Catherine Parr was important: "an extremely intelligent and extremely progressive woman"