Presenting the Iron Lady and Diana
Netflix releases first photos of Margaret Thatcher and the ‘ People’s Princess’ in the latest season of ‘ The Crown’
NETFLIX has released the first stills of the two most anticipated historical figures portrayed in season four of The Crown: Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher.
The streaming service released a handful of photos from the upcoming fourth season of the British royal drama yesterday, including looks at Emma Corrin as Diana and Gillian Anderson as Thatcher, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The royal drama returns on
November 15 and will feature Anderson prominently as Thatcher, who is elected prime minister and navigates an, at times, uneasy relationship with Queen Elizabeth II, played by Olivia Colman.
Corrin’s Diana is shown being photographed on a street while Anderson’s Thatcher, who became the UK’S first female prime minister in 1979, is shown waving outside 10 Downing Street.
Corrin ( Pennyworth, Misbehaviour) told The Hollywood Reporter that producers sent her biographies and footage of Diana to study and put her in contact with people who knew her.
“When you are reading about Diana, you want to sift all the bullshit from the truth,” Corrin said, adding she would work with a movement and voice coach.
The actress, however, said she didn’t see much of a physical resemblance, though.
“My mum has been told that she looks like Diana. She often has been mistaken for her throughout her life, which is a really weird connection,” she says. “But I have never had that. I get young Jodie Foster.”
Other images show Olivia Colman’s Queen Elizabeth, Tobias Menzies’ Prince Philip and Josh O’connor’s Prince Charles.
The fifth season will be filmed next year and not air until 2022, a similar pause to the one taken between the second and third seasons, with seasons five and six set to take the story into the 2000s.
The cast of the British royal family drama will change again between the show’s fourth and fifth seasons, with Imelda Staunton set to assume the role of Queen Elizabeth, Lesley Manville playing Princess
Margaret and Jonathan Pryce taking over the role of Prince Philip. Additionally, Elizabeth Debicki will take over the role of Princess Diana in seasons five and six.
Creator Peter Morgan recently revealed that he’d returned to his original plan to have the series run for six seasons instead of an abbreviated five- season run, which he had said at the time was the “perfect time and place to stop”. But, Morgan clarified, “season six will not bring us any closer to present day – it will simply enable us to cover the same period in greater detail”.