Netflix’s “The Crown” was announced in 2014, as reported byBBC News.
The streaming giant revealed their plans for an ambitious TV series dramatizingthe stunning transformation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Eventually, more news emerged.
And John Lithgow was tapped to play Sir Winston Churchill.
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In a subsequent interview withExpress, series creator Peter Morgan threw a little reality into the mix.
You could say her life was cut short in a way," Foy told theThe Telegraph.
“She has no power, she can’t express power.
Did they even watch it?
Are you involved in this ‘Crown’ thing?”
The queen, however,didreportedly watch “The Crown.”
“They have a Netflix account and urged her to watch it with them.
But in many ways, what an example of a roguish, brilliant man.
Why aren’t we as men allowed to celebrate that, fictionally or not?
He hasn’t asked permission.
And his wife’s the Queen.”
Foy addressed the controversy during a 2018 appearance, reportedThe Telegraph.
“I certainly won’t be naive about those things.
“And I think that’s really changed my approach to myself and other women in this industry.
It’s been only a positive thing even though, embarrassing.”
Ben Daniels took over the role of Lord Snowden from Matthew Goode.
“She said, apparently, she was glad it was me.
“So I asked her: ‘Are you OK with me playing you?’
and she said: ‘You’re better than the other actress’ … that they were thinking of.”
That quip from beyond the grave convinced Bonham Carter she actually was communicating with Princess Margaret.
“That made me think maybe she is here, because that is a classic Margaret thing to say.
“Then she said: ‘Get the smoking right.
“The cast are all amazing,” she told theSunday Postof the show’s original actors.
“I met her once,” she said of the queen.
“It wasn’t really a meeting, more a row of people shaking hands and curtsying.
I didn’t know she was going to be there.
We all suddenly ended up in a queue and I couldn’t work out why.”
She has to stand up all of that time as well.
I think she had 200 people to say, ‘Hello, how do you do?’
“The royal family were not very present … in our lives.
They weren’t people I thought about very much,” he toldWBUR.
So, yeah, I definitely am quite ill qualified for this … “I don’t think Philip would watch it.
I imagine he’d find whatever inaccuracies we’ve committed to be irritating.”
“Polly gave me a tortoise to help me figure out Prince Charles,” he explained.
For her portrayal of Princess Margaret, Helena Bonham Carter was presented with a very different creature.
“I was given a bird of prey,” she revealed.
She was always very aware of what’s going on around her.
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However, that’s not necessarily the case.
“There are two sorts of truth.
We’re not pretending this is a chronological record of those years.
There are lots of documentaries that do that sort of thing.
“But ultimately, there’s only so much research you’re free to do.
After a time, you just got to crack on and create something for yourself.”
According to theSunday Times, however, none of that happened.
“She was almost stone deaf and therefore somewhat remote, quite forthright and rather austere.”
As noted byThe Hollywood Reporter, newcomer Emma Corrin was cast as Diana.
In addition, former X-Files starGillian Andersonwas chosen to portray British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Royal expert Hugo Vickers felt the fourth season’s depiction of Charles was “disgraceful.”
As he toldVanity Fair, “They always liked to portray him as a kind of wimp.
His goal was to inform Her Majesty on what was actually going on with the common folk.
The truth, however, is a little more complicated and, it turns out, alotmore psychedelic.
“I forgot you’re only supposed to take a little handful,” he explained.
“Two years later I was still coming down.
I was high on mushrooms for a long, long time.”
All that royal rancor toward the show is understandable, a “palace source” explained to theDaily Mail.
“These events are not the history of 100 or even 50 years ago,” said the source.
“The pain is still raw and not enough time has elapsed.”
Those scenes weren’t actually shot in those countries, however, but in Spain.
For Corrin, filming in Spain proved to be delightful until one scene landed her in a hospital bed.
According to Corrin, the nurses figured out her identity and offered a novel suggestion to preserve her privacy.
Speaking withHarper’s Bazaar, Anderson touched on the various aspects of portraying the Iron Lady.
As a result, Anderson added, “I don’t think many were destroyed in the process.
No wigs were harmed.”
AsTown & Countrypointed out, the dress was kept top-secret until the day of the royal wedding.
Diana’s wedding gown was estimated to have cost $115,000.
“I walked out and everyone went completely silent.
More than anything else I wear in the series, it’s so …
It’s her.”
However, Menzies was apparently not the first choice to play the late Duke of Edinburgh.
“Yeah, we discussed it,” he said.
“We just couldn’t come to terms on dates is all that happened.”
Even though he wasn’t able to join the show, he was definitely an admirer.
“One hundred percent I remain a fan of it,” he gushed.
“It’s fantastic.”
Being American wasn’t the only impediment that Lithgow had in playing Churchill.
He added to that by stuffing cotton in his nose and apple slices his cheeks, he toldUSA Today.
“He was a little bulldog,” said Lithgow, “and I’m a big lummox.”
Meanwhile, the second season racked up close to 17 million viewing hours.
Perhaps most interestingly, the first two seasons of “The Crown” were Netflix’s most-streamed shows rankingNo.
1 and 2, respectively in Ukraine in the midst of its war with Russia.
“I expect we will stop filming out of respect too.”
“It would be a simple tribute and a mark of respect.
She’s a global figure and it’s what we should do.”
So how concerned was Buckingham Palace?
According to a report inThe Telegraph, very.
