“The Crown” is an absolute success project for the streaming provider Netflix. Despite all the criticism, the series is extremely popular and has won a number of important awards over the years. Currently, however, there are a few less benevolent voices accusing the series of not having much in common with reality and demanding that it be clearly declared as fiction.
Of course, the series is unlikely to be a true representation of what has happened behind the scenes of the British royal family over the past few decades. Yet she offers an idea of how it might have been. The question we ask ourselves in this article, however, is a different one: What is it actually like behind the scenes of “The Crown”?
“The Crown”: Curious facts about the Royal series
Spectators only see the finished product – but very few people know that the way there can sometimes even be life-threatening. For example, did you know that actor Matt Smith nearly died in an accident while filming the first season of The Crown? Or that actress Olivia Colman described her role as Queen Elizabeth for the third and fourth seasons as “the worst job on earth”? Or that an actress actually had birdseed stuffed into her bra?
Who are the secret stars of the series and what was it like working with them? And what about the recently deceased Queen herself: Has she ever seen the series? And if so, what did you think of the dramatized portrayal of your own life? Was she able to gain something from the series or would she have been one of the extremely critical voices demonizing the series under other circumstances?
Remarkable, exciting, enraging: we have collected six facts about the popular Netflix series and hope you enjoy reading them.
Sources used: metro.co.uk, dailymail.co.uk, vogue.co.uk, mirror.co.uk, english.alarabiya.net, ew.com, express.co.uk