Netflix is slowly dribbling out the promotional assets for the upcoming two-part final season of The Crown. We don’t blame them for milking it, especially since this season seems designed to get Buckingham Palace insiders red hot, but we wonder if they’re over-selling the Diana story just a little bit at this point.
Not that it matters, of course. We’ll be watching and furiously recapping the whole thing, but we wonder if the Diana moment has passed. She’ll always loom large as the tragic mother of the next king, but the culture’s fascination with her waxes and wanes and we suspect she’s heading into a “wane” period. Also: that kid doesn’t look anything like Harry.
Season 6 Part 1 premieres on Netflix on November 16th. These first four episodes of the final season depict a relationship blossoming between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences.
Speaking about her starring role in this season, Elizabeth Debicki (Princess Diana) said: “I think it’s a really unique challenge as an actor, to portray those days. I really just trusted in Peter’s emotional blueprint that he created for us to follow. It’s his interpretation and I think it made emotional sense to me, so I clung to that. Because, obviously, it’s devastating and it’s fraught and we can never know.”
For both Dominic West (Prince Charles) and Imelda Staunton (Queen Elizabeth II) there is an ease and an understanding to taking on these characters for a second season.
Imelda Staunton says “I’ve been living with her for a long time so, if anything, I felt more comfortable this time. I love her stillness and her ability to not be thrown by everything that must have constantly – throughout her whole life – gone on around her.”
Dominic West says of Prince Charles: “I think he’s got real sadness to him and real compassion and what’s great about The Crown is that you see these public figures in private. I suspect in private he’s quite emotional, well that’s the way I played him anyway… I think, hopefully, what comes out is compassionate but relatively well-balanced.
“I talked to a lot of people who have met him because he’s met a lot of people, he’s met probably more than anyone except the Queen and Prince Philip. Almost everyone has extremely warm, kind things to say about him.”
Salim Daw feels strongly about playing Mohamed Al Fayed: “I adore this character. I love him so much and I enjoy portraying him because I love him. In this huge series, he is so human and he’s so colourful. He’s hard sometimes, very hard, funny, like a child – with his son he’s sometimes very, very hard but he has plenty of love for his son and the audience will see that and will feel exactly what I’m talking about.”
And Khalid Abdalla on playing his son, Dodi Fayed says: “It’s been the honour of my life to be part of this project, to be part of The Crown, and to play Dodi”
The 6th season of THE CROWN will close out the genre-defining prestige royal saga that has been on screens since 2016. The Crown’s final season will premiere in two parts: Part 1 on November 16th and Part 2 on December 14th.
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