Diana’s tragic fate is the focus of the upcoming season of The Crown.
The highly anticipated final season of The Crown is released this week. Or yes – the first part of the final season. These first four episodes focus on the last weeks of the late Princess Diana. And according to Elizabeth Debicki, the actress who took on this special role, it must have been a living hell for the princess.
Diana in The Crown
Since The Crown is (very loosely) based on the reality surrounding the Windsors, there was already plenty of speculation about Diana’s role in the royal drama series. In season four, actress Emma Corrin made her appearance as the blushing bride of Prince Charles (played by Josh o’Connor), and the final season focuses on her death, among other things.
In interviews, Elizabeth Debicki has now lifted the veil on re-enacting the last weeks of her highness.
Unbearable
The Australian actress makes no bones about the fact that even playing Diana’s role was very difficult. She shared with the Radio Times: “You only have to be in such a situation for a minute and you realize that it is completely unbearable.”
She continues: “No one should ever have to experience what it feels like to try to get from place A to place B and have such a swarm around you. You feel very trapped.”
Crash
Although the makers of The Crown have always stated that they will not film Diana’s crash itself, the moments leading up to the moment and the events afterwards will be filmed. Producers Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie have also repeatedly emphasized that the dramatization of that tragic moment would be done ‘delicately’ and ‘thoughtfully’.
“There has been a very careful, long conversation about how we are going to do it,” she says. “Ultimately the audience will judge, but I think it was crafted in a delicate, thoughtful way,” Mackie shared earlier this year. “The show may be big and loud, but we are not. We are thoughtful people and we are sensitive people.”
Let’s hope that the coming episodes will also convince the critics!
Source: The Guardian, InStyle, Glamial archive | Image: NL Image
