‘The Crown’: Dominic West & Elizabeth Debicki On Recreating Charles & Diana’s Explosive Divorce

The upcoming fifth and penultimate season of “The Crown” will deal with what’s arguably the largest royal scandal of the twentieth century, the bitter, scorched-earth divorce of Charles and Diana.

With Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki taking up the roles (which had been performed beforehand by Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin), the actors spoke with Leisure Weekly about what it was wish to play two of the world’s most well-known folks throughout such a contentious and well-documented chapter in royal historical past.

As a result of their characters have been on the outs on the time, West and Debicki don’t share a lot display screen time within the fifth season, however each actors single out a fictionalized scene during which Charles visits Diana at her residence, have been they give the impression of being again at their failed marriage.

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“That was like a one-act play that [‘The Crown’ creator] Peter Morgan had written. It was great to have an imagined scene the place there’s a rapprochement between these two, who had been by way of a lot, so publicly. It felt proper and attention-grabbing for them to mirror about being these rock stars, and in addition on the appalling pressures that had been [put] upon them,” stated West.

“I’d agree that it was like doing a play,” added Debicki. “That was actually one thing that we each bought to do collectively and construct collectively and it was a stupendous factor to make.”

One other scene that stands out for Debicki was the one during which she wears Diana’s now-iconic “Revenge Costume,” the uncharacteristic black gown she wore as a sly reference to her husband’s infidelity.

“It fascinated me how entranced folks have been with that gown,” admitted Debicki.

“When it grew to become recognized that I had the half, I acquired these textual content messages saying congratulations, [but] there was additionally an enormous quantity of textual content messages concerning the Revenge Costume. ‘Do you get to put on the Revenge Costume?’ ‘Oh my God, you get to put on the Revenge Costume!’” she stated.

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She recalled the gown felt “very important and fairly highly effective, but in addition it provoked one thing in me as an actor,” she stated. “I can’t actually clarify it. It’s fairly unimaginable {that a} gown would symbolize a second in historical past, or that this human’s life would symbolize a lot and turn out to be so iconic. In order that was a giant day on set for me!”

The fifth season of “The Crown” debuts Nov. 9.