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 Colman, who won an Oscar earlier this year for playing a
different royal in dark comedy "The Favourite," portrays Queen
Elizabeth in a retelling of the life of Britain's reigning
monarch. Colman replaces Claire Foy, who won a Golden Globe for
the role as a younger version of Elizabeth.
The show's third season, arriving on Netflix on Sunday, picks up
the story in the mid-1960s going through to 1977, as heir to the
throne Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) comes of age and Britain
goes through a pop culture revolution led by The Beatles and The
Rolling Stones.
Creator Peter Morgan has said the series, whose first two
seasons cost about $130 million to make, is based on known facts
and imagined private conversations.
Helena Bonham Carter, who takes on Elizabeth's younger sister
Princess Margaret, said she was a joy to play.
"The hardest thing about playing Margaret or anybody of the
family is that ultimately so many people feel they know her. And
everyone has an opinion," Bonham Carter told Reuters Television
on the red carpet.
"There were so many really close friends that were all too happy
to talk about her and wanted to and really loved her and also
wanted to show the side that was less known about her - that she
was funny, that she was full of warmth and that she was very
multicolored," the actress said.
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Erin Doherty, who plays second-born child Princess Anne, said that
working on the series had made her more sympathetic to the royal
family.
"After doing this show, I feel like I understand them a lot more and
I really, really value them and I have a lot of empathy for them,"
Doherty said.
Asked whether he thought the royal family watched the show, Tobias
Menzies, who plays the queen's husband Prince Philip in middle age,
said he doubted it.
"It makes me a bit nervous imagining them watching it. I'd be amazed
if they watch it, but maybe they do.... My money is that they
probably don't," he said.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; editing by Richard Pullin)
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