When the actor, 62, thinks about slowing down his workload, he tells himself, "Just shut the f--- up, Ralph, get on with it."

Helmed by Edward Berger, the religious thriller drama ‘Conclave‘ stars Ralph Fiennes as Thomas Lawrence, a British Cardinal who is responsible for conducting the papal conclave following the pope’s death.

Ralph Fiennes is Oscar-worthy astonishing - 5/5 Edward Berger’s account of cardinals battling to be the new Pope is a thrilling succession story, and Ralph Fiennes is simply hypnotic

Put the two together and you get Conclave, an expertly juicy drama of Catholicism and guilt, built on that loaded question and a crackerjack performance from Ralph Fiennes. The setting is the Vatican,

There’s nothing normal about this place. Rigid mores and etiquette persist from centuries ago. Elderly men genuflect to kiss the ringed hand of a patriarch, while women are kept in the background. So much extraordinary wealth and influence underpins every action,