The TV series returns on Netfilx on November 9 between expectations and accusations: the word to the actors: “This is not a documentary”
LONDON – Diana’s interview with the BBC about her husband’s infidelity, Charles’ desire to take the throne, the monarchy as an institution that is partly anachronistic and expensive. With a fifth season that takes viewers to the events of our time, The Crown returns, out November 9th on Netflix aristocratic Penny Knatchbull , from Diana’s whims to her flirtation with Dodi Fayed, the screenplay, conceived by Peter Morgan, re-proposes the upcoming mix of reality and fiction that has ensured its success despite the thousands of criticisms that continue to accompany the series.
When former Prime Minister John Major and actress Judi Dench accuse the drama’s writers of tampering with the truth by constructing a treacherous and disrespectful portrait of the royal family, interpreters want to remember that The Crown is “not a documentary,” although this starting point is anchored in the truth. Queen? “I never wondered if she or the rest of the family saw the drama,” actress Imelda Staunton, who bears a striking resemblance to Elisabetta with her blue eyes and petite build, told Corriere. “Sure, I’m sorry she died, but I’m glad she lived a long, rewarding life. I don’t think she was interested in the idea of looking at a fictionalized version of her life. He had his horses, his dogs to walk with… ».
An aspect of the sovereign’s life that she was able to understand better through the script? ‘His faith. It helped me to catch between the stillness and his ability to stay still. For the rest, I’m glad I had time to study the role and allow it to enter my body».
Have you considered quitting the role? “There’s always a great responsibility, these are fascinating characters and at the same time they pose an important challenge from a technical point of view: how to show the inner turmoil of a person who is holding back on the outside.”
Allegations against The Crown include it airing just before the Sovereign’s disappearance, but the cast agree.
“It’s a script that has always given people comfort and has become a staple,” says Dominic West, who plays Carlo. “It would have been pointless to postpone it.” “The royal family taught us that once a king dies, another is made, it goes on,” added Olivia Williams, Camilla. And if times are “tough for the royal family” in this fifth season, as explained by Jonathan Price, who takes on the role of Prince Philip, the positives are not lacking: “For me, the amazing thing is the love between them Charles and Camilla , their harmony,” explains Williams. “There is a great complicity. The way they look at each other, smile and laugh seems to confirm a deep and lasting love.”
And what a temper, Camilla. “She has long been assigned the part of the third wheel, the others. Everything was said about her, but she never wanted to argue: she persevered and kept going ». Despite this, season five paints an often devastating portrayal of the Windsors, a family where, as Carlo points out in one of the opening episodes, no one enjoys a happy marriage, the political forces don’t understand the extravagance or traditions of the house, and find it difficult to keep the inner struggles and the compound distance maintained in situations of great need. There is what Elizabeth then called the annus horribilis, with the separation of the children and the fire at Windsor Castle in 1992. It is the very thorny ground on which Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki (surprising given the similarity in Art and Appearance with the Princess of Wales): a woman increasingly lonely and misunderstood within ‘the company’, ‘the company’, willing to join journalist-biographer Andrew Morton – in reality as a consultant on the drama, among other things dedicated – to tell all his worries. Among the twists, it’s perhaps natural to consider that the most unlikely aspects are moments that really happened. The invention – the dialogues and some nuances – does not seem very flashy in comparison.
November 7, 2022 (Modified November 7, 2022 | 5:53 PM)
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