Highly anticipated by fans of Princess Diana, who continues to fascinate more than twenty years after her death, the biopic Spencer is available on Amazon Prime since Monday.
The plot unfolds as the “marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long been tarnished”. During the Christmas holidays, a truce of peace is requested by the queen. The family must then go to Sandringham. Under the airs of a perfect family, the dramas continue. The film is an illustration of what could have happened during those December days. A new trailer had been released in early January.
Spiritual sensations during filming
On screen, the princess is played by Kristen Stewart, almost unrecognizable with her blonde bob and her new facial expressions. In an interview with the The bone Angeles Times, the actress says that she developed a particularly intense closeness with Diana. So much so that she sometimes had the impression that the princess was communicating with her, as reported by the Belgian media Proximus. Nevertheless, she clarified that she had never seen fromparanormal activity on set, but only felt “strange and spiritual sensations” during filming. “I was fighting to keep her alive every day,” she added.
Prince Charles is for his part embodied by the British actor Jack Farthing, best known for his role in the BBC series “ Poldark “. The rest of the cast includes Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall and Sean Harris. Pablo Lorrain, the director, concretizes with “Spencer” his third film of the genre (after the biopics dedicated to the poet Pablo Neruda as well as to Jackie Kennedy). Available today on Amazon Prime, the film has already received critical acclaim in UK and US theaters. The success should undoubtedly redouble since the launch on the Amzon Prime video platform.