British Royal News says that she almost gave in to the pressure. Elizabeth Debicki admits that she almost quit her role as Princess Diana in the hotly anticipated fifth season of The Crown. Here’s what you need to know.
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The Crown Season 5 Spoilers – Elizabeth Debicki Almost Quit Her Role As Princess Diana
Speaking to the Radio Times magazine, Elizabeth says that she has certainly felt “enormous pressure” on her shoulders to play the iconic Princess Diana on the small screen. “I was thinking I was completely mad for trying to do this,” she recalled. “My sister would find me staring at the sink full of dishes and would go, ‘Oh, my God, what’s wrong?’ and I’d say, ‘I can’t do it. I don’t know how to do it’. It feels insurmountable until the scripts get delivered to you and the entire process begins.”
Elizabeth also opened up about the debate on whether or not The Crown is fiction or fact. The actress did point out that because Netflix has added a disclaimer, she’s hoping that the show’s critics can “stop talking about it and move on” already.
The Crown Season 5 Spoilers – Is The Series Based On Fact Of Fiction?
“I respect people’s points of view and I, being an actor in the show, understand the nature of what the show is,” she explained. “It was always very clear to me that one can never know what happens behind closed doors, and that a writer is interpreting what may have happened.”
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Elizabeth continued: “It’s a tricky thing to speak about because I would like people to watch it and make up their own minds. There’s a huge amount of room for interpretation, and that’s the value and beauty of The Crown as well, that you receive a different message depending on who you are. That’s good drama to me.”
Meanwhile, royal author Omid Scobie says that everything fans will see on The Crown actually did happen in real life, for better or for worse. In his new column for Yahoo, Scobie insists that Netflix does have the receipts when it comes to all of the royal chaos that happened behind closed palace doors.
He puts it this way, “This chaotic decade – which ended with public support for the monarchy at its lowest – became the House of Windsor’s worst in history. And thanks to how publicly many of its scandals played out, they’re also some of the most documented. But despite the abundance of material banked in historical archives, the push to label The Crown as a total work of fiction has become fiercer than ever. Just like many things (and people) initially embraced by The Firm, the show has now become the enemy.”
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