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“There is a profound sense of tragedy that lives in your body
when you play that part of the story," Debicki told Reuters in
an interview. "But having watched it, which I recently did, and
while the credits are rolling, I thought this was a really
serious thing that we put on the screen."
The two-part sixth, and final, season of “The Crown” explores
Princess Diana’s final days before she perishes in a car
accident. It premieres on Netflix on Nov. 16.
As a historical drama, the Emmy-winning drama series created by
Peter Morgan seeks to tell the story of Queen Elizabeth’s reign
against the backdrop of various royal dramas.
Debicki believes it’s a common experience for "The Crown" actors
to struggle to “let go” and stop “observing” themselves while
filming the show.
The pressure of capturing the British royals is intense,
especially when depicting the loss of a princess to whom many
people still feel connected, she said.
“Yeah, we left all the pieces of ourselves up there on the
screen, because it deserves nothing less than that,” Debicki
said.
Similarly, Khalid Abdalla - who portrays Dodi Fayed, Egyptian
billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed's son, who was in a romantic
relationship with Princess Diana - viewed his work with Debicki
as a huge responsibility.
“The process of doing it together has been everything that you
would wish for in collaboration,” he said, referring to working
with Debicki.
He went into the final season also thinking about how the loss
of Princess Diana is still a “cultural trauma” for “millions of
people around the world.”
Abdalla said the sacredness of what “The Crown” cast was
recreating was something to which he wanted to give dignity.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway; Editing by Mary
Milliken and Jonathan Oatis)
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