Queen Elizabeth II has been unknown to most, but there is one place where the curious can feel closer to her. it’s on the screen.
Whether it’s Helen Mirren in The Queen, a movie about the monarch’s life after Princess Diana’s death, or Claire Foy and Olivia Colman in Netflix’s The Crown, the actors are all different. I took a different approach and tried to understand. The skin of such a mysterious person.
Mirren told The New York Times in 2006 that not only did she rely on her gray wig and upper body accent, but she immersed herself in every aspect of Elizabeth’s life, reading biographies and watching old movie clips to make sense of it. Even the character and manners of the monarch, both on and off duty.
Foy, who portrayed a young queen assuming the throne in the first two series of “The Crown,” was unable to do much research because there was no explanation for what the monarch was really thinking. said. those moments.
“I had to imagine what it would be like for a girl who wanted to live in the country with her husband, children, dogs and horses,” Foy said at a 2016 media event. According to Variety magazine“She’s a shy, withdrawn type who was very close to her lovely sister and then suddenly she’s given the top job, and she’s the least likely person to get it.”
Foy described the Queen as keeping her children away, but Elizabeth said she shouldn’t be criticized for it. No one would question it,” the actress said in an interview. Guardian 2017.
Ms. Colman seems to be the actor most influenced by playing the monarch. “I fell in love with the Queen,” she said in a 2019 interview with British magazine Radio Times.
Elizabeth was the “ultimate feminist,” she added, adding that at a time when there were few women in Britain, the monarch was the breadwinner of the family, and in 1998 the Queen became the breadwinner. Deposed King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Around her Balmoral mansion in Scotland at a time when women were forbidden to drive in his country.
“She’s extraordinary,” Ms. Colman said. “She changed my perspective on everything.”