Netflix’s Tudum has released some new photos of Season 5 of The CrownThis includes the first images from Princes William and Harry as well as photos Imelda Staunton as Queen, Elizabeth Debicki playing Diana, and Dominic West playing Charles.
In Season 5, with the new decade in its stride, the Royal Family are presented with possibly their biggest challenge to date, as the public openly question their role in ‘90s Britain. The unravelling of the so called fairy-tale couple of Prince Charles and Princess Diana is front and center. It is followed by a heartbreaking divorce.
West has described the scenes involving Charles and Diana as ”tumultuous as it gets,” even more so in Season 6, streaming on Netflix next year.
Jonathan Pryce, as Prince Philip the Duke Of Edinburgh, and Lesley Manville (as Princess Margaret) are also featured in Season 5. Marcia Warren is the Queen Mother. Olivia Williams plays Camilla Bowles, Queen Consort of King Charles. Khalid Abdallas portrays Dodi Al-Fayed, who died in the Paris crash with Diana; Salim Daw plays Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dodi’s father.
The Crown Peter Morgan created and wrote this book. Morgan executive produces alongside Suzanne Mackie, Andy Harries and Matthew Byam Shaw. Robert Fox is Robert Fox’s producer. Jessica Hobbs is also involved.
“What has been nice, and I hope I don’t prove them wrong, is people saying, ‘I’m really looking forward to seeing her as the queen,’’ Staunton tells Tudum. “So, let’s just hope that works out for them because I’ve done it. Nothing I can do about it now!”
Tudum also had a conversation with Debicki about Diana’s role. “That’s the amazing thing about playing these people at this time, because in the journey of The Crown so far out of all the seasons, this is the most visual content we have of the Royal Family,”Debicki. “In the ‘90s everything had started to be filmed and also it was the birth of the 24-hour news cycle so there’s just this incredible amount of content that we have access to. Diana was the most photographed person in the world at that time. As an actor you open the portal and this huge tsunami of information comes at you. I happily swam around in it.”
West also appears in the first season of his of The CrownCharles.
“I think people understand, because the cast has changed every two seasons, that this is not an imitation,”West declares. “This is an evoking of a character. That’s really where the show lives: in the imagined conversations of their private life, which is something that no one knows. I think that’s what it gets a lot of criticism for. How can you know what they talk about in their private lives? The obvious answer is we don’t, but we have an incredible writer, a dramatist, who imagines based on exhaustive research, and that’s really part of the fascination of the show.”
The CrownSeason 5 premieres on Netflix November 9.
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