Everything ‘The Crown’ cast has said about filming final season — and Diana’s death

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broken up into two parts — with the first turn dropping Nov. 16 and the second premiering a month later.The last segment will take viewers into the modern era of the British royal family, beginning with Princess Diana’s untimely death in 1997 and ending in the mid-2000s.While there has been controversy over how Netflix would portray the late Princess of Wales’ passing from a Parisian car crash alongside her lover, Egyptian billionaire Dodi Fayed, the event will still be played out in some form on screen.It was reported last month that the series wouldn’t show the actual tragic event and wouldn’t even present a dead body to those who tune in.“We did film Diana, but very respectfully — not in a big close-up,” director Christian Schwochow told Deadline, adding that the historical moment was shot with enormous sensitivity. “It was very, very clear to us that we don’t want to see her dead body.

I actually think that it was not a discussion. Not even in the first version of the cut we would ever see her body,” he stated.The new season stars Elizabeth Debicki as Diana alongside Dominic West as Prince Charles, Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Khalid Abdalla as Fayed and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret. Keep reading to learn everything that “The Crown” cast has said about the last 10 episodes and what they have noted about portraying Diana’s traumatic death. “The Wire” star, 54, revealed that in Season 6, he is playing the monarch, 74, during “the worst period” of his life.“There were some really heavy scenes this season and a lot of tears for Charles,” he said during a Netflix cast interview in April, according to Deadline.