Elizabeth Debicki, the interpreter of Lady Di in season 5 of The crown, increase. The Australian actress takes the floor to respond to the numerous criticisms surrounding this new batch of episodes, which is expected next Wednesday on Netflix:
“It’s clearly a fiction,” he said in a lengthy interview with the guardian. “I have a feeling that viewers know that, because they are actors playing roles.”
Since 2016, The crown imagine behind the scenes of the reign of Elizabeth II. In recent months, the British press has been concerned about the content of season 5, which will cover dark years for the royal family, including the separation of Diana and Charles in 1992.
“I never looked The crown telling me that it was a documentary, or that what was told there was necessarily true”, continues Elizabeth Debicki, who will take her first steps in the role of the former Princess of Wales; the cast is renewed every two seasons to adapt to the age of the characters, and Emma Corrin camped out so far as William and Harry’s mother.
A fire difficult to extinguish
Various cast and crew members have spoken out in recent weeks to defend the series in the face of mounting criticism from the British press. Because season 5, which will be released two months after the death of Elizabeth II, should return with many embarrassing chapters for the royal family.
In addition to the divorce of Carlos and Diana, several media reports that she will stage the rumors according to which King Charles (then a prince) would have sought his mother to abdicate.
A point so sensitive that even politicians begin to react. John Major, then British Prime Minister, published a letter on the subject on Friday in the daily telegraph call these episodes “untrue and offensive”. According to the guardianSeason 5 will feature Prince Charles setting up a meeting with the former head of state to discuss his desire to take the throne:
“Fiction should not be disguised as reality,” complains John Major in his letter. “(This season 5) will be deeply hurtful to a family that is still grieving the person the show is based on.”
New warning message request
Finally, he affirms that a message specifies at the beginning of each episode that it is a fiction. A frequent request that Netflix has never fulfilled:
“It seems to me that Netflix still refuses to put a disclaimer during the credits, arguing that ‘everyone knows this is fiction’. But that is not enough (…) Without taking such a step, millions of people in everyone could be influenced by a fictitious and harmful scenario”.
Tony Blair, prime minister from 1997 to 2007, also spoke. Always according to guardianSeason 5 will show Prince Charles trying to make him an ally to help him marry Camilla. “It shouldn’t surprise anyone that it’s nonsense,” he said in the newspaper’s columns.
The latest trailer for The crown presented by Netflix presents a message reminiscent of the fictional character of the series. But there is no indication that this message appears in the episodes. And it is that the program created by Peter Morgan is probably not finished arousing criticism: season 6, currently filming, will tell the death of Diana in a traffic accident in Paris in 1997.
Source: BFM TV
