Di lives on in people’s hearts..it’s an honour to play her
NEW CROWN STAR IS THRILLED WITH PRINCESS ROLE
IF ever an actress looked made for a part, it was Elizabeth Debicki in the role of Princess Diana.
Willowy beauty Elizabeth, who turns 30 tomorrow, will be the glamorous royal in the last two seasons of Netflix drama The Crown.
And she has little doubt it is the biggest TV role of her career to date.
Elizabeth said: “It is my true privilege and honour to be joining this masterful series, which has had me absolutely hooked from episode one.
“Princess Diana’s spirit, her words and her actions live in the hearts of so many.”
A bombshell in the hugely successful series The Night Manager, Elizabeth will take over the part from Emma Corrin, who appears as a young Diana in series four.
Elizabeth also made an impact as socialite Jordan Baker in 2013 film The Great Gatsby.
And she stars with Kenneth Branagh and Robert Pattinson in the sci-fi action film Tenet, which opens in cinemas on Wednesday.
Elizabeth has worked with some of the biggest names in showbiz – but it is a wrinkly rocker rather than a dashing actor who has left her most starstruck.
She described her first meeting with Mick Jagger – they were in 2019 film The Burnt Orange Heresy together – as surreal. She said: “I’ll never forget g the first time I met him in a hair and make-up room.
“Mick isn’t just a legend, he’s an icon. I mean, ean, he’s the Rolling Stones. nes. What’s cooler than that? hat? I didn’t even realise what a fan I was until I met et him.
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“He makes it clear straight away that he has no airs about him. It was fascinating scinating watching him work and d being around him because e he has more energy in his body and in his mind than probably obably you and I combined on n our best days while highly caffeinated.” affeinated.”
The pair got ot on so well that they swapped apped phone numbers, which hich led to a funny moment ent with a member of her er family.
Elizabeth’s s sister was visiting her at home in London when en Sir Mick rang. She recalled: alled: “I was busy taking out ut the trash or sweating over ver the stove doing real-life e things that people do when hen my phone rang. When my sister looked at the screen she said, ‘Mick Jagger is calling!’ ng!’
“So I immediately ediately rushed over, took the e phone, and very coolly answered, ed, ‘Hello.’”
Elizabeth, now worth nearly £1.5million, lives ives a quiet life, dividing her r time between places in central ntral London and
Los Angeles, where one of her pastimes is growing owing lavender.
The 6ft 3in star’s other hobby is ballet, which ch she plans to take up again. She said: “It’s a long time since I put on n some ballet shoes.
I’m going to be e like the elephant trundling around und the room.”
She has no interest in flashy cars as she cannot nnot drive.
What’s more, re, she shuns all forms of social media a and refuses to comment on speculation n about her love life.
Elizabeth was romantically linked to
Tom Hidd Hiddleston, who she starred with alongsid alongside Hugh Laurie in 2016’s award-winning adaptation of John Le Carré’s novel The Night Manager.
Elizabeth has never nev confirmed the rumour and describes hers herself as currently single.
She was born in Paris to a Polish father and Australian mo mother, both professional ballet dancers.
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The eldest of thre three children, Elizabeth was six when the famil family relocated to Australia and she grew up in Melbourne.
Because of her m mixed heritage and exotic early years, she has described herself as an emotional melting pot.
She said: “I loved dance and I had dreams of becoming a ball ballerina. But when I was in my early teens I att attended a summer school
for the Australian National Ballet and I saw that I was taller than my ballet teacher.
“That’s when I started thinking it was probably wise to choose another profession. I continued to take classes in contemporary dance.” Her parents hoped she would take a law degree g but she chose to study
drama at the University of Melbourne.” Elizabeth likes playing mysterious characters because, she said: “I’m the least mysterious person on earth. And whenever I try to behave like that or present myself in a very serious way, I can never keep up that pretence for more than five seconds.”
In Tenet, also starring Michael Caine, she plays the estranged wife of Branagh’s Russian oligarch character who “gets herself into a very tricky situation” in a high-octane story filmed in seven countries.
She said: “It’s a very heightened feeling to think the film I made last year may be one of the first things back in cinemas after so
many months.”
Mick’s an icon and has more energy than you and I combined