‘The Crown’ Star Elizabeth Debicki Says Dealing With Fake Paparazzi While Playing Princess Diana Was ‘Incredibly Invasive’
variety.comK.J. Yossman “The Crown” star Elizabeth Debicki has said it felt “incredibly invasive” to deal with fake paparazzi while playing Princess Diana in the Netflix series.
Debicki, who returns as Diana in the sixth and final season of the Netflix show about the British royal family, portrays the princess in the last weeks of her life.
At the time, Diana was the most photographed woman in the world, and the series shows how events conspired to make a stolen snap of the princess worth its weight in gold, effectively supercharging the paparazzi who eventually chased her into the Paris tunnel where she died in a crash in 1997. “It was difficult to recreate,” Debicki said in an internal interview with Netflix (conducted in April 2023, before the SAG strikes). “It was heavy and very manic, and incredibly invasive.
And it had a kind of pressure to it. At times it’s almost like an anomalistic response to being pursued by that many actors playing the press, because there’s nowhere you can go and you only have to be in a situation like that for about a minute, before you realize this is completely unbearable.” “Trying to get from one place to another and to have this swarm around you, you feel very trapped.
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