The newcomers knew that they weren't hired to simply slide into someone else's interpretation of a character
Signing on for a prestige TV project with two seasons of critical acclaim and awards sounds like a no-brainer, but it was a much more complicated prospect for the would-be royals on season three of Netflix's. Not only would they be playing powerful real-life figures, many of whom are still alive, but they'd now have to follow in the footsteps of heralded performances created by different actors.
Thanks to some convincing from creator Peter Morgan — Bonham Carter requested a script before committing; Colman did not — the newcomers knew that they weren't hired to simply slide into someone else's interpretation of a character. They were meant to create their own, lived-in versions of these very real people.
"It started with listening to a lot of audio, watching a lot of footage, trying to get that detail so that I'm close but also natural and not too mannered or too much like an impersonation," he tellsOf course, that only provided insight into Philip's public persona. The personal side of the character came from the writing and Menzies' own interpretation.
Bonham Carter's "exhaustive" approach was multipronged and included reading biographies, speaking with Margaret's real-life friends and consulting her "three witches," aka the three people she visits every time she plays a historical figure. It did, of course — and that was another tool the actress used to pin down a complicated, controversial and fascinating woman who she believes was misunderstood during her lifetime.
Says Bonham Carter: "The clue that Morgan gave me is that you can play a scene 10 different ways and they'd all be appropriate to her, and every time you land on some definition of her, then the opposite is true. She's rebellious, but she was also incredibly loyal to her sister." "She [was] constantly going from trying to be intimate and ordinary to then playing very much a high royal status card, socially. She was very ambivalent.
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