If this meant playing pope to this century's Michelangelos, well, all the better: "It takes a pope or somebody with a lot of money to recognise art and to support it," Mr Braden said.
The first photo of Law playing Pope Pius XIII in The Young Pope has been released, showing him soaking up the sun in Rome as he reclines in a chair.
Rough and unhinged, but quietly spoken and personable in the way of a prototypical barbie-operating beer drinking Aussie bloke, Mendelsohn is all sorts of creepy in playing Pope.
For good measure he plays Pope John Paul II, and he croons the songs of Julio Iglesias.
Among many radio roles, he played Pope Paul VI in Roger Crane's conspiracy thriller The Last Confession (2008).
Tony Kushner, the writer behind Spielberg's Lincoln and Munich, will write the script and Rylance will play Pope Pius IX, who regarded the kidnapped boy as his own child.
At the start, the show seemed to be mostly a vehicle for its charismatic star, Kerry Washington, who plays Pope, and to hinge largely on the gimmick of her secret love affair with the President.
"You did get a little discouraged, but they don't realize, the whole continent of Africa, that's all they play, the whole Caribbean region, that's all they play," Pope said.
Kerry Washington, who plays Pope, has once again teamed up with The Limited's head of design, Elliot Staples, and "Scandal" costumer designer, Lyn Paolo, to design more sleek power suits, outwear and smart separates.
He will play Pope Pius IX in "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara," the based-on-fact story (to be written by Tony Kushner, who previously tackled "Munich" and "Lincoln" for Spielberg) of the far-reaching implications of the 1858 abduction of an Italian Jewish boy.
While some pundits and journalists try to play Pope Francis of politics -- describing Trump's rhetoric as the dregs of political discourse while encouraging congregants to rise above and turn the other cheek -- many of these questions about the effect of Trumpisms go unanswered.
