![]() ![]() I think I would hear her and feel her but not see her. And in my scenes, I suggested, I don't think I would literally see her. There's a brilliant writer who's decided to do this particular way of telling this part of the story. STAUNTON: Well, for me, I mean, I - Diana, for me - her, for the queen, was just in her head. ![]() It became controversial after the episodes post the decision to have scenes where Diana's ghost interacts with Charles and Elizabeth. ![]() And I love that he makes them complicated.ĭETROW: I do have to ask about this. And I love that he doesn't shy away from that or just paint the royal family as, you know, this extraordinary family for good and all that, that there are complications. He shows - you know, he'll show the good, the bad and the ugly. STAUNTON: Yes, that's a great line, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. We can't be a private family when we feel like it and a public family when we want to be. ![]() It's almost a thesis statement for the whole show, where Charles says to your character, you know, essentially, this family can't have it both ways. So I loved that it was difficult and awkward, and I like that Peter allowed us to show that.ĭETROW: There's a scene in that final episode of the first half of the season. Maybe that was her sense of loss, not really knowing what to do and everyone telling her what to do and her having to just sort of stop and think about why she wasn't responding how the public wanted her to respond. And yet she knew that her life was public and her response would be seen by the nation and the world. And it was puzzling, I think, to her, why it should be so public. And I think her sense of duty at that time was to the immediate family. And it was wonderful to play a person who was torn, where she - I don't think she'd ever been put in that position ever before. And I think she had no idea, obviously, I mean, that that was going to happen, that response was going to be so intense. STAUNTON: Well, I think it was great that Peter didn't shy away from that and that he did show the monarch not responding as she probably should have to the death. Staunton told us that was important to show. In the series, created by Peter Morgan, there are glimpses of royal frustration and bewilderment at the very un-British outpouring of emotion that followed Diana's death. And I feel like this is a good time to pause for a spoiler alert for any of the would-be viewers who are either unaware of major historical events or some of the artistic choices that the show made to convey them. It was a period when the queen came under intense criticism for her initial lack of a public response. And we knew, you know, our responsibility was to keep doing the show that we had started to do.ĭETROW: The first half of "The Crown's" final season focuses on Princess Diana and her death. And we obviously - it was a very, very sad time and difficult. We couldn't let it affect the work because we were filming scenes from 1997. STAUNTON: Well, it couldn't affect the work. I asked Staunton how that affected the production. IMELDA STAUNTON: (As Queen Elizabeth II) What am I, do you think, a domestic or foreign policy queen?ĭETROW: Staunton and the crew were in the process of filming the show's last season when the queen died in September of last year. And playing the queen of the 1990s and 2000, Imelda Staunton. Is that I am obliged to support my prime ministers on any position they take.ĭETROW. CLAIRE FOY: (As Queen Elizabeth II) Once again, messages of Christmas greeting. ![]()
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