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Ahead of play 5 of The Crown, Dominic West has revealed wherefore helium was initially hesitant to play Prince Charles successful the Netflix series. Find retired his reasoning here.
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Dominic West almost didn't marque it to the palace.
The actor, who is portraying King Charles III (then known arsenic Prince Charles) successful seasons 5 and six of The Crown, opened up astir however helium astir didn't instrumentality the relation aft showrunner Peter Morgan approached him astir it.
"I said, 'You've got the incorrect guy,'" West recalled successful an Entertainment Weekly feature published Oct. 18. "'I don't look thing similar him.'"
But West had different crushed for turning the portion down—and it had everything to bash with Josh O'Connor, who took connected the relation of Prince Charles successful seasons 3 and 4 (and nabbed an Emmy for his portrayal).
"I'd been watching the show, I'd been a instrumentality from the start," West said. "I was precise conscious of Josh's astonishing performance, and his astonishing success, and thought it was a spot of a hiding to thing to effort to travel that."
Ultimately, though, The Affair prima said yes to the job—in part, helium said, due to the fact that it wouldn't permission him alone.
"I thought astir it for respective weeks, and it was 1 of those things you can't truly get retired of your head," helium said. "[I] realized that you've got to springiness it a spell due to the fact that you'll regret it if you don't. He's a fascinating man, Charles, and it's a fascinating life, and a fascinating role. I mean, isolated from thing else, it's a immense show, and I loved the archetypal 4 seasons. I realized that I could precise happily unrecorded with this quality for 2 years."
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During play five, West volition tackle immoderate of Prince Charles' biggest scandals, including his divorce with Princess Diana (a relation taken implicit by Elizabeth Debicki) and "Camillagate," the 1993 controversy where leaked audio revealed Charles telling Queen Consort Camilla that he wanted to "live inside" Camilla's trousers, but with his luck, he'd beryllium reincarnated arsenic her tampon.
"I retrieve reasoning it was thing truthful sordid and deeply, profoundly embarrassing [at the time]," West recalled to EW. "Looking backmost connected it, and having to play it, what you're conscious of is that the blasted was not with these 2 people, 2 lovers, who were having a backstage conversation. What's truly [clear now] is however invasive and disgusting was the press's attraction to it, that they printed it retired verbatim and you could telephone a fig and perceive to the existent tape."
Season 5 of The Crown premieres Nov. 9 connected Netflix.
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