Netflix vs reality: Do the actors of The Crown really look like their royal characters?<

Everyone has already watched the series The Crown or at least, according to audiences, no less than 29 million people watched the fourth season on Netflix and 73 million people for seasons 1 and 3.But why so much craze?Partly for the actors' game since the series was nominated 39 times at the Emmy Awards and won 10.The sumptuous decor would also be for something since according to rumors, The Crown would be the most expensive series ever made for a streaming platform.Its success is due to the fact that it stages the privacy of the British royal family without moving away from reality.What to stir up the curiosity of fans of the stories of Buckingham Palace.In mid-August 2021, Netflix published the first photo of Elizabeth Debicki who plays the role of Princess Diana, rekindling the impatience of Internet users.

The strange resemblance between the actress and the princess of Wales quickly caused a buzz on the canvas.Nothing could be more normal since over the seasons, the directors of The Crown took care to recruit actors capable of embodying members of the royal family in their entirety and in all their complexity, physical resemblance understood.Claire Foy, was congratulated for her calm and reserved interpretation of a Queen Elizabeth II in full transformation.Actor Josh O'Connor, in seasons 3 and 4, excelled in his way of interpreting the aristocratic facial mimics of Prince Charles.

Vogue compared the actors to you to the members of the royal family they play in the Netflix series “The Crown”:

Queen Elizabeth II

When she became a queen at just 25 years old, Queen Elizabeth II was considered by many as the new face of the modern English monarchy.While today, Queen Elizabeth II is rather in the collective imagination a sweet old woman, a monarch with white hair and the extraordinary collection of hats.During the beginnings of her reign, the queen especially had a woman/child side.A look transcribed by Claire Foy who embodies it in the first two seasons of the series.

Olivia Colman is simply brilliant in the role of a much more mature queen, older and safer of her who fights to direct her nation.

Better known for his role as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter, Imelda Staunton will play Queen Elizabeth in the last two seasons of the series taking place in the 1990s.In July 2021, Netflix published an official portrait of the actress embodying the current monarch.

Princess Margaret

The only sister of Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret was known to be the most sparkling and most open -minded royal family member of the royal family.At 22, she fell madly in love with her father's assistant, Captain Peter Townsend, a divorced man and 16 years old.Their romance is poorly perceived by the royal family ... Following the many pressures, it ends their relationship.Actress Vanessa Kirby plays the role of the young princess Margaret before Helena Bonham Carter took over in season 3.

Princess Margaret is known among other things, for having experienced one of the most incredible divorces in the history of the royal family.Interpreting the princess's frustration with regard to her marriage and her role within the crown, Helena Bonham Carter brings a new breath to the character from season 3.

Named to the Oscars for its role in Phantom Thread in 2018, Lesley Manville will replace Helena Bonham-Cartter for the continuation of The Crown.The actress should certainly achieve a very touching performance in this part of the history where the state of health of Princess Margaret is deteriorating.In 1993, she was hospitalized for pneumonia before undergoing in 1998 a stroke that affected her mobility.

Prince Charles

While he does not appear in the first episodes, Prince Charles becomes a central character in the seasons 3 and 4.English actor Josh O’Connor then interpreted his role on Netflix.

In August 2021, Netflix published the first photo of Dominic West, a protagonist with a dark look that embodies Prince Charles.The actor has notably played in The Affair, a role that should help him play his character in the next season, a married winning prince, however, pursuing his extra marital relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Prince Philip

Have we been the only ones to look for Google “Prince Philip Young” just after being seduced by the performance of Matt Smith in the role of the charming husband of Queen Elizabeth II?Hair, style ... everything is united, not surprising that the queen only liked this man.

In seasons 3 and 4, actor Tobias Menzies succeeded Matt Smith in the role of Prince Philip and the resemblance is quite disturbing, it must be admitted.

The actor of the two popes will play in the seasons 5 and 6 the role of the man that Queen Elizabeth II will have called her “strength”.This force will be more than necessary because 1992 was the year that the queen nicknamed "Annus horribilis".Indeed, the royal family has been splashed by many scandals ...

Princess Diana

Brilliant, Emma Corrin plays in season 4, the role of Princess Diana in The Crown.Having a lot of talk about her following her performance, the actress plays Lady Diana almost teenager who marries Prince Charles while she was only 19 years old.

The actress of the film The Great Gatsby will resume the role of Emma Corrin in seasons 5 and 6 during which the tumultuous divorce of Princess Diana and Prince Charles should take place.The first image unveiled by Netflix shows the sad and elongated princess on a sofa.

Camilla Parker-Bowles

Camilla Shand who will later become Madame Camilla Parker-Bowles is the woman who will ultimately intervene between Prince Charles and Lady Diana in season 3.She is interpreted by the English actress Emerald Fennell who produced the second season of Killing Eve and who also produced Promising Young Woman, appointed to the Oscars.

Antony Armstrong-Jones, the 1st Count of Snowdon

Antony Armstrong-Jones was a seductive photographer who married Princess Margaret in 1960, a man suddenly propelled in a life made of privileges, parties, low blows and infidelities.This union led to a grandiloquent divorce 18 years later.He was notably known to be a womanian runner and rocked the monarchy like an upstart as Wallis Simpson had already done.Matthew Goode plays the role of this protagonist who divides the viewer in the second season of The Crown.

King George VI

King George VI was not supposed to be king since it was his brother, Édouard VIII, who was intended for the throne, until he abdicated to be able to marry the American worldly Wallis Simpson.Famous for his stuttering, he was terrified by speaking in public but ended up overcoming his handicap thanks to the help of his speech therapist friend Lionel Logue.

Winston Churchill

It was an ambitious choice since the creators of the series decided to choose an American actor to embody the most memorable statesman in Great Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill.John Lithgow achieves more than captivating performance in recent years in power of one of the most powerful men in the country.

The queen mother

Queen Elizabeth II's mother was one of the most loved royal family in British history.We loved him so much that Adolf Hitler one day described it as "the most dangerous woman in Europe".She lived up to 101 years before dying peacefully in her sleep, her eldest daughter by her side.

Captain Peter Townsend

War hero and squire of King George VI, Peter Townsend has become one of the most controversial figures in Great Britain after falling in love with Princess Margaret, daughter of King George VIE.

Duke of Windsor

King Edward VIII is best known for having almost destroyed the monarchy alone, after having asked in marriage the American worldly Wallis Simpson, divorced twice.Marrying a woman who had two ex-husbands would have caused a constitutional crisis in Great Britain.King Edouard VIII therefore renounces the throne to marry him.The two spouses then exiled in France, where they spent a large part of the rest of their lives.

Translation by Flora di Carlo

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