After starring as a younger model of Prince Philip through the first two seasons of The Crown, Matt Smith has a singular perception into whether or not Queen Elizabeth II truly binged the Netflix sequence primarily based on her life.
“I heard the queen had watched it,” the Doctor Who alum, 39, mentioned throughout a Thursday, September 15, look on the Today present. “And she used to watch it on a projector on a Sunday night apparently.”
While the queen — who died earlier this month on the age of 96 — had supposedly been maintaining with the Netflix drama, her late husband, Philip, was not as to rewatch his life story on TV.
“I know that Philip definitely didn’t,” Smith famous on Thursday. “My friend sat next to him at [a] dinner and asked. I think Philip asked my friend if he made The Crown. … [My friend said,] ‘I can’t resist. Have you watched The Crown?’ [Philip] turned around and said, ‘Don’t be ridiculous.’”
While the Duke of Edinburgh — who died in April 2021 on the age of 99 — discovered it “ridiculous” to observe The Crown’s onscreen drama about his life, the couple’s grandson Prince Harry has seen a number of episodes.
“They don’t pretend to be news. It’s fictional,” the Duke of Sussex, 37, mentioned on The Late Late Show With James Corden in February 2021. “But it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course, it’s not strictly accurate. … It gives you a rough idea of what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.”
Harry added: “I’m way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife [Meghan Markle] or myself because it’s the difference between [The Crown] is obviously fiction, take it how you will, but this is being reported on as fact because you’re supposedly news. I have a real issue with that.”
The Archewell cofounder’s brother, Prince William, met Smith previous to his Crown debut and even provided a couple of tricks to higher painting his late grandfather.
“I met [William] very briefly in a lineup at the polo, the House of the Dragon star said during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show in November 2016. “The lady who was doing the lineup said, ‘This is Matt and he’s about to play Prince Philip.’ And then she said, ‘Have you got any advice for him?’”
Smith added: “And then I thought, ‘God, I’m going to die.’ All [William] said was, ‘Legend. He’s an absolute legend.’”
The Crown, which is at present filming its sixth season, introduced that they had paused manufacturing shortly after the queen’s passing was introduced.
“The Crown is a love letter to her and I’ve nothing to add for now, just silence and respect,” creator Peter Morgan informed Deadline in a press release on September 8. “I expect we will stop filming out of respect too.”
Season 6 — which options Imelda Staunton because the long-reigning monarch, taking up for Claire Foy and Olivia Colman — has since resumed manufacturing. A premiere date is scheduled for November.
Source: www.usmagazine.com