Elizabeth
Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales in the fifth season of The Crown.
Photograph: Netflix/PA
Elizabeth Debicki channels Diana in first peek into
The Crown’s fifth season
Production has begun in the UK on the next instalment
of the wildly popular Netflix series, with an Australian taking centre stage
Kelly Burke
Thu 19 Aug
2021 02.50 BST
Netflix has
released its first look of the Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki as Diana,
Princess of Wales in the upcoming fifth season of The Crown.
The British
actor Dominic West will play her estranged husband Prince Charles as the pair
traverse the 1990s, an era beset by extramarital affairs, eating disorders and
assorted royal family dramas.
Production
of the fifth season began in the UK in July, with Debicki and West taking over
from Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor, who portrayed the younger royals in the
previous season through their courtship and marriage in the 1980s.
Imelda
Staunton takes over from Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II, Jonathan Pryce
takes over from Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, and Lesley Manville picks up
Helena Bonham Carter’s portrayal of Princess Margaret.
Gillian
Anderson’s Margaret Thatcher of the 80s makes way for Jonny Lee Miller’s John
Major of the 90s.
Dominic
West as the Prince of Wales. Photograph: Netflix/PA
Melbourne-raised
Debicki first received international recognition eight years ago with her
portrayal of Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann’s film The Great Gatsby, which won
her an Aacta award for best actress in a supporting role.
The
statuesque actor (she is 1.91 metres tall) went on to feature in Guy Ritchie’s
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the third instalment of the Cloverfield franchise, The
Cloverfield Paradox, and Steve McQueen’s Widows, in which she garnered multiple
film industry award nominations. She also played Virginia Woolf in Chanya
Button’s Vita & Virginia.
In 2020
Debicki starred in Christopher Nolan’s spy thiller Tenet opposite Kenneth
Branagh.
The fifth
season of The Crown is not expected to hit Australian screens until next year.
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