‘The Crown’: Dominic West & Elizabeth Debicki On Recreating Charles & Diana’s Explosive Divorce

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The upcoming fifth and penultimate season of “The Crown” will tackle what is arguably the biggest royal scandal of the 20th century, the bitter, scorched-earth divorce of Charles and Diana.

With Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki taking on the roles (which had been played previously by Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin), the actors spoke with Entertainment Weekly about what it was like to play two of the world’s most famous people during such a contentious and well-documented chapter in royal history.

Because their characters were on the outs at the time, West and Debicki don’t share much screen time in the fifth season, but both actors single out a fictionalized scene in which Charles visits Diana at her apartment, where they look back at their doomed marriage. READ MORE: ‘The Crown’ Will Include Charles And Camilla’s Infamous Tampon Phone Call, Dominic West Confirms “That was like a one-act play that [‘The Crown’ creator] Peter Morgan had written.

It was wonderful to have an imagined scene where there is a rapprochement between these two, who had been through so much, so publicly.