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Jude Law is starring as Pope Pius XIII in new series The Young Pope [trailer]. Law plays 47 year old Lenny Belardo, an American, and former Archbishop of the Diocese of New York. The series also stars Diane Keaton, Cecile de France, Silvio Orlando, Javier Camara, and is directed by Paolo Sorrentino. The series is a joint production of Sky, HBO and Canal+.
The Young Pope is a hit with Catholics – so why is the Vatican so silent about it?
The Young Pope review: Jude Law's sleek pontiff shines in Sorrentino's Twin Peaks
Of course HBO’s The Young Pope will premiere on a Sunday
The Young Pope is a hit with Catholics – so why is the Vatican so silent about it?
The Young Pope review: Jude Law's sleek pontiff shines in Sorrentino's Twin Peaks
Of course HBO’s The Young Pope will premiere on a Sunday
Please tell me Sally Field makes at least one cameo in a habit
posted by Hermione Granger at 8:44 PM on November 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by Hermione Granger at 8:44 PM on November 30, 2016 [7 favorites]
Actually kinda thrilled if they dig into how weird some of the underlying theology can be!
Probably just Basilica Of Cards.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:53 PM on November 30, 2016 [8 favorites]
Probably just Basilica Of Cards.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:53 PM on November 30, 2016 [8 favorites]
I'm fascinated. First of all, how is Jude Law playing 47, something went wrong there. Second: is this blasphemous [or heretic?], technically? Third: curious that (looks like?) they've made the institution morally neutral, and located the conflict around A Bad Guy - how are religious, rightwing Americans going to react to this? Is this hegemony-supporting, or hegemony-challenging? Or is it just a fun story? I probably won't watch to find out (just because I never get around to watching anything) so will scroll down for conclusions.
posted by cotton dress sock at 9:08 PM on November 30, 2016
posted by cotton dress sock at 9:08 PM on November 30, 2016
I want you to know that my immediate reaction upon seeing the post title to this was to mentally sing "sex pope, sex pope, you're my sex pope" to the tune of "Sex Bomb," so. Let that weigh on your conscience.
Anyway, I'll probably watch at least the first episode of this. I suppose it's too much to hope for that there'll be meaty theology talk instead of just blasphemous orgies and HBO doing the TV production equivalent of throwing fistfuls of cash monies around.
posted by yasaman at 9:15 PM on November 30, 2016 [5 favorites]
Anyway, I'll probably watch at least the first episode of this. I suppose it's too much to hope for that there'll be meaty theology talk instead of just blasphemous orgies and HBO doing the TV production equivalent of throwing fistfuls of cash monies around.
posted by yasaman at 9:15 PM on November 30, 2016 [5 favorites]
Did anyone else read Hadrian the Seventh by Fr. Rolfe?
That was my first thought...
posted by hototogisu at 9:22 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
That was my first thought...
posted by hototogisu at 9:22 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
il papa Lenny in 10 gif
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:32 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:32 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
I immediately thought of The Vicar of Christ, an old potboiler novel about a guy who is, in succession, a Medal of Honor awardee in Korea, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and a pontiff named... Francis. Nothing like an overachiever.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:35 PM on November 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:35 PM on November 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
The pope is a secret catburgler intent on finding nazi gold in the vatican.
The pope is really a woman but it's too late and the vatican has to keep her secret. And she's pregnant.
The pope discovers they caught aids from unprotected anal sex.
Jesus comes back and flips all the tables in the vatican.
The pope's long journey to being runner up on Dancing with the Stars.
The pope hands over all information about the pedophile conspiracy in the church and everyone involved in it goes to prison forever.
All rather implausible.
posted by adept256 at 9:48 PM on November 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
The pope is really a woman but it's too late and the vatican has to keep her secret. And she's pregnant.
The pope discovers they caught aids from unprotected anal sex.
Jesus comes back and flips all the tables in the vatican.
The pope's long journey to being runner up on Dancing with the Stars.
The pope hands over all information about the pedophile conspiracy in the church and everyone involved in it goes to prison forever.
All rather implausible.
posted by adept256 at 9:48 PM on November 30, 2016 [3 favorites]
jude law sex pope
Was this the whole pitch? It might have been.
posted by clockzero at 9:55 PM on November 30, 2016 [19 favorites]
Was this the whole pitch? It might have been.
posted by clockzero at 9:55 PM on November 30, 2016 [19 favorites]
Here's a fun fact, men outnumber women in the vatican 17 to 1. Sex pope is probably gay.
posted by adept256 at 10:06 PM on November 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by adept256 at 10:06 PM on November 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
I was a little curious how improbable it would be for someone in their 40s to be Archbishop of New York and I think it turns out that the three youngest Archbishops (ranging in age from 43 to 46 1/2) are Edouard Daher, a Melkite, Joseph Tobji, a Maronite, and Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. While it would be extremely rad for someone from one of the non-Latin-Rite churches to become Pope, I wouldn't exactly hold my breath over it. For whatever reason, though, they make up an outsized portion of the youngest ranks of the Catholic Church's hierarchy right now, since they're all over that list of the youngest bishops.
The youngest American bishop, meanwhile, is this guy, whose job seems to be helping disaffected Anglicans cross the Tiber, so it's hard to say if he's got what it takes to be a sexy chain-smoking pope within ten years.
posted by Copronymus at 10:09 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
The youngest American bishop, meanwhile, is this guy, whose job seems to be helping disaffected Anglicans cross the Tiber, so it's hard to say if he's got what it takes to be a sexy chain-smoking pope within ten years.
posted by Copronymus at 10:09 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
From the gif link that the man of twists and turns posted: “Lo so, sono molto bello. Ma la prego, ora cerchiamo di non pensarci.”
Hahahahaha! "Molto bello", it's true! O, Dio mio, MOLTO bello. You can't not think about it if you see him, is the thing. 3 or 4 summers ago, I was walking down the street on the Lower East Side and happened to see Law sitting at a cafe. I damn near swooned right there on the sidewalk, but managed to get myself around the corner and breathe. There's good-looking men and then there's this man. I've only seen his work in AI and those Sherlock Holmes movies, and he's OK. I mean, I'm not racing to see him in a picture, but in person, he's just way, way up there in beauty.
This Pope thing looks deliciously cheesy, though. That accent! HA! This might be good for a binge day in after Christmas.
posted by droplet at 10:57 PM on November 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
Hahahahaha! "Molto bello", it's true! O, Dio mio, MOLTO bello. You can't not think about it if you see him, is the thing. 3 or 4 summers ago, I was walking down the street on the Lower East Side and happened to see Law sitting at a cafe. I damn near swooned right there on the sidewalk, but managed to get myself around the corner and breathe. There's good-looking men and then there's this man. I've only seen his work in AI and those Sherlock Holmes movies, and he's OK. I mean, I'm not racing to see him in a picture, but in person, he's just way, way up there in beauty.
This Pope thing looks deliciously cheesy, though. That accent! HA! This might be good for a binge day in after Christmas.
posted by droplet at 10:57 PM on November 30, 2016 [2 favorites]
First of all, how is Jude Law playing 47, something went wrong there.
The man is 43. Seems reasonable?
posted by wemayfreeze at 11:01 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
The man is 43. Seems reasonable?
posted by wemayfreeze at 11:01 PM on November 30, 2016 [1 favorite]
he's just way, way up there in beauty.
Oh do see him The Talented Mr. Ripley, his beauty is a plot point,
Every time I see an ad for this I can't help but go "Thaaaaa sex Pope" in the manner of Futurama's ad for the space pope.
posted by The Whelk at 11:24 PM on November 30, 2016 [6 favorites]
Oh do see him The Talented Mr. Ripley, his beauty is a plot point,
Every time I see an ad for this I can't help but go "Thaaaaa sex Pope" in the manner of Futurama's ad for the space pope.
posted by The Whelk at 11:24 PM on November 30, 2016 [6 favorites]
The man is 43. Seems reasonable?
Not after seeing The Talented Mr. Ripley. Not at all.
posted by cotton dress sock at 12:02 AM on December 1, 2016
Not after seeing The Talented Mr. Ripley. Not at all.
posted by cotton dress sock at 12:02 AM on December 1, 2016
(Really, he ought to have been contractually obliged to sleep in formaldehyde.)
posted by cotton dress sock at 12:06 AM on December 1, 2016
posted by cotton dress sock at 12:06 AM on December 1, 2016
This looks great!
I had to laugh at "You'll be a terrible Pope. The worst!" though. The competition there is just so fierce. I know he's already in there smoking cigarettes, but to even be in the running for worst Pope he needs to build up to, like, exhuming corpses and throwing orgies. Barring a crossover with Westworld, I don't see it.
posted by No-sword at 2:09 AM on December 1, 2016 [4 favorites]
I had to laugh at "You'll be a terrible Pope. The worst!" though. The competition there is just so fierce. I know he's already in there smoking cigarettes, but to even be in the running for worst Pope he needs to build up to, like, exhuming corpses and throwing orgies. Barring a crossover with Westworld, I don't see it.
posted by No-sword at 2:09 AM on December 1, 2016 [4 favorites]
Ooh, this looks right up my alley. Well, except that it obviously doesn't have even the slightest chance of passing the Bechdel test.
Then again, a show about the Vatican is probably one of very few exceptions to it that are easy to make.
posted by sively at 3:44 AM on December 1, 2016
Then again, a show about the Vatican is probably one of very few exceptions to it that are easy to make.
posted by sively at 3:44 AM on December 1, 2016
Did anyone else read Hadrian the Seventh by Fr. Rolfe?
The trailer does make this look like a less rococo Hadrian, albeit with the Pope as the bad guy. The Popewardly mobile priest in Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers also comes to mind.
posted by thomas j wise at 4:19 AM on December 1, 2016
The trailer does make this look like a less rococo Hadrian, albeit with the Pope as the bad guy. The Popewardly mobile priest in Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers also comes to mind.
posted by thomas j wise at 4:19 AM on December 1, 2016
Actually kinda thrilled if they dig into how weird some of the underlying theology can be!
You say "weird", we say "engaging dinner conversation."
posted by Thorzdad at 5:20 AM on December 1, 2016
You say "weird", we say "engaging dinner conversation."
posted by Thorzdad at 5:20 AM on December 1, 2016
For non-Catholics with poor senses of 20th century history, it is surprisingly difficult to discern where this sits on the fiction --- docudrama spectrum.
Like, there was an American Pope Pius XIII, but he seems like a cult leader, and this seems to be happening in actual churches. And it seems like maybe judelawsexpope can do some actual magic, but maybe the only magician is the trailer editor?
Anyways, I am always down for grumpy James Cromwell so I'll give it a shot.
posted by sparklemotion at 7:15 AM on December 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
Like, there was an American Pope Pius XIII, but he seems like a cult leader, and this seems to be happening in actual churches. And it seems like maybe judelawsexpope can do some actual magic, but maybe the only magician is the trailer editor?
Anyways, I am always down for grumpy James Cromwell so I'll give it a shot.
posted by sparklemotion at 7:15 AM on December 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
I want you to know that my immediate reaction upon seeing the post title to this was to mentally sing "sex pope, sex pope, you're my sex pope" to the tune of "Sex Bomb," so. Let that weigh on your conscience.
I'd rather think of it to the tune of "Sex Dwarf." Isn't it nice .....
posted by blucevalo at 7:18 AM on December 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
I'd rather think of it to the tune of "Sex Dwarf." Isn't it nice .....
posted by blucevalo at 7:18 AM on December 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
What's it all about, sex pope alfie?
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:34 AM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:34 AM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
I just hope there's a scene with a cattle stampede.
posted by bondcliff at 8:53 AM on December 1, 2016
posted by bondcliff at 8:53 AM on December 1, 2016
Every time I see an ad for this I can't help but go "Thaaaaa sex Pope" in the manner of Futurama's ad for the space pope.
I 've just got Tom Jones' Sex Bomb stuck in my head, but with Pope.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:56 AM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
I 've just got Tom Jones' Sex Bomb stuck in my head, but with Pope.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:56 AM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
...and I see I am not alone in this. There are so many rhymes to pope!
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:57 AM on December 1, 2016
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:57 AM on December 1, 2016
I can't wait, so I'm watching clips on youtube:
The Young Pope Intro
The First Public Address Of Pope Lenny
Pope Pius XIII Gets Ready For The Address
Pope Enters Sistine Chapel
Pope Pius XIII Addresses The Cardinals
The Young Pope On Abortion
Pope Lenny Loves Cherry Coke Zero (And Formality)
posted by the man of twists and turns at 1:46 PM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
The Young Pope Intro
The First Public Address Of Pope Lenny
Pope Pius XIII Gets Ready For The Address
Pope Enters Sistine Chapel
Pope Pius XIII Addresses The Cardinals
The Young Pope On Abortion
Pope Lenny Loves Cherry Coke Zero (And Formality)
posted by the man of twists and turns at 1:46 PM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
Here's hoping they go full gay priest sex parties
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 10:59 AM on December 2, 2016
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 10:59 AM on December 2, 2016
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I see that Pope Jude Law has taken the papal tiara. A Pope hasn't worn a crown like that in over fifty years, but he wants to look badass so he's had one of the old ones polished up. As ridiculous as this probably is, I like the style.
posted by Countess Elena at 8:09 PM on November 30, 2016 [5 favorites]