“The Crown” star Claire Foy
Queen was also a ‘disturbing symbol’
Claire Foy played Queen Elizabeth II in two seasons of The Crown.
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Claire Foy has already slipped into the role of Queen Elizabeth II. This was also a “disturbing symbol” for many.
In the first two seasons of the Netflix series “The Crown”, actress Claire Foy (38) played the young Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022). After her death in September last year, not only her son Charles (74) was appointed the new king. The passing of the British monarch has left a void for many people. In an interview with “Welt am Sonntag”, however, Foy points out that a cult has sometimes developed around the Queen, which needs to be viewed in a differentiated manner.
So it is important “to remember in this context that all those people to whom the Queen conveyed something like reassurance and continuity faced a very large number of people for whom she represented something completely different: For her, she was Queen a disturbing symbol, one that angered her.” Regarding her own feelings after the Queen’s death, Foy says: “Personally, I didn’t feel like there was a gap in my life.”
The Queen as a “projection surface”
None of these opposite poles have sole raison d’être and it rather shows that the Queen has a “large projection screen for many things [war]what people wanted to see in her”. She noticed that again and again during her preparation for her part in “The Crown”. “The woman and the role she held” were “completely different”. “And she The way her role has been taken says a lot about our society, who we are, what we miss, what we long for.”
After Claire Foy, two other actresses slipped into the role of the Queen in the Netflix production: in seasons three and four it is Oscar winner Olivia Colman (49). In the recently broadcast fifth season and the forthcoming sixth and final issue, Imelda Staunton (67) plays the monarch.