What Tom Holland has said about Lost Cause of the Confederacy
2 quotes · 1 episode · Mar 29, 2026
Tom Holland, English actor cast as Telemachus, has been quoted on Lost Cause of the Confederacy 2 times in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on March 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Holland observes that America's two great early-twentieth-century film epics both promoted a romanticised fantasy of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
“It is amazing that the two great epics of American cinema in the first half of the 20th century, this and Gone with the Wind, are both basically promoting this kind of fantasy of the Civil War and its aftermath”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 15:07
Holland argues that casting oneself as an oppressed underdog licenses violence, which is inherently cinematic.
“if you're the underdog and you cast yourself as oppressed, then you are entitled to inflict violence. And violence is always cinematic”
The Rest Is History: 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3) (Mar 29, 2026) · Listen from 16:00
Episodes
656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3)The Rest Is History · Mar 29, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan as a mass fraternal, marketing-driven, anti-Catholic movement.
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