Jonathan Pryce goes from Game Of Thrones to the Vatican for Netflix's The Pope
It’s been a while since Jonathan Pryce’s High Sparrow got blown up on Game Of Thrones, but now he’s once again returning to the high-stakes world of religious intrigue with a new Netflix original movie called The Pope. That comes from Deadline, which says Pryce will play Pope Francis, the current guy in the big hat and the first leader of the Catholic Church to be born in the Americas. He’ll be joining Anthony Hopkins, who is playing Francis’ predecessor Pope Benedict. The Pope is being directed by City Of God’s Fernando Meirelles, with a script from The Theory Of Everything writer Anthony McCarten.