It took a decade of maneuvering to finally complete the television adaptation of novelist Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy ...

KELLY: Mark Rylance - he plays Thomas Cromwell in Masterpiece's "Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light," out now on PBS. Mark Rylance, thank you. This was a pleasure. RYLANCE: Thanks, Mary Louise.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "WOLF HALL: THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT") THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER: (As Rafe Sadler) Did it have to be this way, so bloody? MARK RYLANCE: (As Thomas Cromwell) When negotiation ...

The actor reprises his magisterial performance as Thomas Cromwell in this follow-up to the 2015 series on PBS, based on the novels by Hilary Mantel.

In 'Wolf Hall' Season 2, Mark Rylance returns as a political servant striving to enact enough change to please his king — and save himself.

NPR's Mary Louise talks with Mark Rylance about Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, in which he revisits his role as Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.