The Crown once played a grumpy whip-wielding tyrant. Meg Bellamy is seen scowling as Miss Trunchbull – the demonic head in Roald Dahl’s Matilda.
She was in her early teens and, her old performing arts tutor says, was already a star in the making. Claire Louise Rosser tells the Sunday Mirror: “The part is usually played by a man in drag. “It is not Meg’s casting, but she said she wanted to be challenged. “She was absolutely brilliant, she stepped up to it and took that risk.
It was a significant moment as it made her really stand out. “It takes a lot for students to recognise the better, more interesting characters aren’t always the title roles.
They have a different insight that takes them far. ”Claire, 36, reckons 19-year-old Meg will be perfect to play Kate, the newly annointed Princess of Wales.
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