It’s official:Prince Williamdoes not watchThe Crown. At least that’s what he toldOscar winnerOlivia Colman!
The actress — who playsQueen Elizabethin Season 3 of the hit Netflix show, debuting November 17 — met the Duke of Cambridge at a recent Buckingham Palace reception and popped the tricky question in a chat she jokingly admits “didn’t go very well.”
“He asked what I was doing at the moment before he quickly added, ‘Actually, I know what you’re doing,’ ” Colman reveals onThe Graham Norton Showon Friday.
“I was so excited and asked, ‘Have you watched it?’ ” she continues. “His answer was a firm, ‘No.’ But he was very charming and very lovely.”
“I was very uncool, and he was charming,” she toldThe Sunday Timesabout meeting the royal dad of three at the event. “He has that thing where he makes you feel you’re the most exciting person in the room.”
Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter.Isabel Infantes/PA Images/Getty
Away from the real-life royals, Colman’s also struck up a friendship with co-starHelena Bonham Carter, who plays the Queen’s younger sister, Princess Margaret.
“It really is fun,” Bonham Carter tells Norton about the third series, which details the life ofQueen Elizabethin arapidly changing Great Britainbetween the years 1964 and 1977. “We’ve been together for so long, but we still like each other.”
Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret and Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth.Julian Broad for EW
Bonham Carter also addresses the recent revelation that shevisited a psychicto “speak” to Princess Margaret — who died on February 9, 2002 — before she agreed to the role.
“This story has gathered its own momentum,” she tells Norton. “I actually went to see a friend about something else, but she has a talent for mediumship and she suddenly said, ‘Margaret is here. Does that mean anything?’ ”
Bonham Carter — who’sdating 32-year-old writer Rye Dag Holmboe— continues, “I hadn’t actually said yes (to the part) yet, but thought I’d ask her if I should take the role and she said, ‘You’ll be better than the other one. ”
“There was actually someone else up for the part and it was typical of Margaret,” she adds. “I’d met her a few times and you never really knew where you were with her, she had a way of complimenting and putting you down at the same time.”
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As for Colman? Well, her preparation for the role ofQueen Elizabethhas been slightly less thorough (and a whole less spiritual).
“I did nothing,” she tells Norton. “Though I did have a movement coach. But still I walked like me, or rather like a farmer!”
Season 3 ofThe Crownhits Netflix on Nov. 17.
source: people.com
