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At Toronto Film Festival, Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Looms Large

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Brent Lang Executive Editor It was supposed to be all about the movies. But even here at the Toronto International Film Festival, an ocean away from the United Kingdom, the death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II has loomed large.

It has provided an opportunity for festival organizers, filmmakers and talent to reflect on the life and legacy of a monarch whose 70-year reign ranks as the longest in her country’s history.

That’s partly due to Canada’s status as a member of the British Commonwealth, but it’s also because the festival is such an international A-list affair, one that attracts movie stars and directors who have often had personal encounters with the queen.

Ben Kingsley, on hand at the festival to promote his work as the painter Salvador Dali in “Daliland,” said he had performed “The Taming of the Shrew” for the queen and her family while he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and met her on other occasions, including for a “very intimate lunch at the palace.” “She was a tremendous force of goodwill, kindness and wisdom — one that will leave an enormous gap in the world,” Kingsley said. “And I am confident that his majesty, Charles, will fill and close and ease that wound in my beloved country.” Eddie Redmayne, the star of “The Good Nurse,” also seemed to be processing her loss. “It’s incredibly sad,” he told Variety. “I thought she was an extraordinary woman and somebody who was emblematic of extraordinary resilience and duty.

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