To prepare for season 3 of The Crown, Helena Bonham Carter spoke to the royal herself through a psychic — and, as it turns out, Princess Margaret approves of her casting.
. “She said, apparently, she was glad it was me,” Bonham Carter said last month at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. “My main thing when you play someone who is real, you kind of want their blessing, because you have a responsibility.”. Her main piece of advice? “Get the smoking right,” Bonham Carter recalled at the festival.
Margaret, she said, smoked in a very particular way, using her holder as an accessory and a “weapon for expression.”’s new lead, mentioned her own royal run-in on the same“I met Prince William at a dinner and he asked what I was doing at the moment before he quickly added, ‘Actually, I know what you’re doing.’ I was so excited and asked, ‘Have you watched it?’ His answer was a firm, ‘No,’” Colman said.
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