Rewatching The Crown? Here, Jared Harris and Vanessa Kirby, who played King George VI and Princess Margaret, respectively, shared what it was like to transform into the royal family.
With lives spent in the public eye, the royal family members’ private moments remain heavily guarded, which may be why Netflix’s new series,, chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, has captured our imagination. In it, the curtain is pulled back to reveal domestic disputes, health problems, insecurities, implied affairs, and peeks at a tiny Prince Charles learning how to fish and play soccer. Or, in other words, it reveals the royals as people just like us.
VK: Everything, because actually I didn’t really know anything about her when I first started. I just knew she was the Queen’s sister and she was this old lady who had died in a quite sad way. But finding out all about her early life, the fact that she was this notorious party girl but as well had this great tragic love story that affected the rest of her life and then had this turbulent marriage [was surprising]. She is sort of a great love of mine now.
This weekend the news broke that Prince Harry is reportedly dating American actress Meghan Markle, causing a media frenzy. How in your opinion has the public’s attention toward the royal family evolved?JH: It’s a harder job for them, isn’t it? It’s a harder job for them to maintain that privacy because anybody with a camera is potentially a member of the media.
VK: That’s amazing, isn’t it? That still must go on. I think that’s why we’re still so intrigued and why I loved doing the series because we got to imagine who these human beings are behind this great mystery. In a sense the series doesn’t feel invasive. It feels very respectful, but also its own thing and an imaginative exercise.
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