Last year, HBO unveiled The Young Pope, a new series starring Jude Law as Lenny Belardo, the first American ever to be elected as Pope. But as Pius XIII, Lenny confounds his church by setting an unexpectedly conservative agenda for Catholics around the world. Today, the ten-episode miniseries is available via digital download, and viewers can watch The Young Pope from the beginning to the end.
This miniseries was an especially ambitious undertaking for HBO. To mark the occasion of The Young Pope‘s release on digital download, CraveOnline is proud to present an exclusive video from The Making of The Young Pope special feature. In this clip, Law, James Cromwell, production designer Ludovica Ferrario, and others speak about the lengths that the production team went through to recreate the Vatican for the series. The real Vatican was off-limits for filming, and even the measurements of the location weren’t available. But even with that handicap, the producers managed to impress some of the cardinals with their attention to detail.
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Here’s the description for the series from HBO:
From Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Paolo Sorrentino, the ten-episode limited series The Young Pope tells the fictional story of Lenny Belardo, a.k.a. Pius XIII, the first-ever American Pope and the youngest elected by the College of Cardinals. At first glance, Lenny’s selection over older and more experienced clerics – in particular Cardinal Spencer, a fellow American and Lenny’s mentor – seems part of a simple media strategy by Vatican elders, who no doubt expect the new Pope to toe the line and follow their lead. Instead, Pius XIII eschews the counsel of the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Voiello, and enlists the woman who raised him, Sister Mary, to be his chief confidante. To the chagrin of Voiello and the PR reps who would market the handsome and charming young Pope, Lenny refuses to allow himself to be photographed, and he announces a series of severe, hardline initiatives that confound the Vatican status quo. The Young Pope paints a portrait of a mysterious, complicated man fully aware of the contradictions and consequences of being the conservative leader of a billion followers in a changing world – but unwilling to bend in the execution of his duties.
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