The Crown: Elizabeth Debicki says recreating Princess Diana’s final days was ‘harrowing’

The Crown: Elizabeth Debicki says recreating Princess Diana’s final days was ‘harrowing’

The actress who plays Lady Di in the Netflix series talks about the process of recording the final season

First part of last season Crown arrived on Netflix this Thursday (16), and the actress Elizabeth Debickwhich interprets Princess Diana in the series’ final phase spoke to Entertainment Weekly about how it felt to recreate the show’s final days. Lady Di. According to her, the process was “sad”.

Continuing the events leading up to the tragic death of Princess Diana, the sixth and final season of the series. Crown explores Lady Di’s romantic relationship with Dodi Al Fayed. Both died in 1997 in a car accident in ParisV Franceafter trying to escape paparazzi.

In an interview with E.V.Debicki said that, in addition to the fact that reading the script for the season was quite difficult, depicting the final days of the princess was not an easy process:

“It was very unpleasant. The pursuit [por paparazzis] thus, you feel incredibly drained and empty. After a while, I think Khalid [Abdalla, ator que interpreta Dodi Al-Fayed na série] and I felt like we were on this hamster wheel that we couldn’t escape. […] As an actress, I just let myself relax, stopped acting and just reacted to what was happening. It helped me understand the intensity of what was happening, and also how unbearable it was and how precious silence and solitude become.”

The latest season of The Crown explores Diana’s relationship with Dodi Al-Fayed.

Debicki also noted that since she was cast as Princess Diana in CrownYou know that “I had a deep responsibility” with history, mainly due to “the severity of the tragedy” about what happened in real life.

Made Peter Morgan, Crown follows the trajectory of government Elizabeth II V Great Britain, exploring important events in the British monarchy and royal family. The first part of last season is already available on Netflixand the second one is broadcast on the same day December 14.

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