Netf lix and chill, Will!
The risque advice offered to prince
‘Downbeat stereotypes’
IT was perhaps an unfortunate choice of phrase.
But when Prince William was advised last night to ‘Netflix and chill’, he appeared wholly untroubled.
The mildly risque term refers to watching Netflix as part of an intimate evening in with your partner.
But it was also unlikely to be lost on the prince that the streaming giant is embroiled in royal controversy.
At an African film-making event, Nigerian media mogul Mo Abudu urged the Prince of Wales to watch her new movie when it airs tomorrow.
The founder of EbonyLife Films, described by Forbes as one of Africa’s most successful women, laughed as she told him: ‘Just Netflix and chill!’
William smiled and politely nodded his head.
It comes as the fifth season of The Crown, due out next week, is mired in rows over taste and fakery, while William’s brother Harry is filming a documentary for the streaming service that is feared could deepen current rifts in the family.
Miss Abudu, 58, later repeated her request, telling the prince: ‘Netflix, don’t forget!’
William, 40, was attending an event at the Garden Cinema in London, organised by the Royal Africa Society, of which he is patron, to mark the Film Africa festival. He listened as Miss Abudu told the audience that when she was starting in the industry the only ‘people like me’ she saw on screen were in the film Fame.
Most others, she added, were ‘drug addicts, prostitutes, maids… such terrible downbeat stereotypes’, but the industry was much better now.
William later spoke to young filmmakers, actors and others working in the industry about their experiences.