1. Het had weinig gescheeld, of Claire Foy had er niet in gezeten
The Crown-maker Peter Morgan aan Variety:
'I tried to cast almost everyone in Britain before Claire Foy. It was weird. Every time I went to a read through where we were doing auditions for "The Queen," I was interested in actress A or B I would skip the bit where Claire was in there. And then after about the fourth time, I went, "This one is sensational, who's this?" And they said, "Pete, she's been in four times. And you've gone for a better-known actress." She very queen-like[,] slipped in and has proven to be very queen-like. Brilliantly effective.'
Nah.
2. De corgis in de show eten een heel pakje cheddar-kaas per dag
De échte sterren van de show zijn natuurlijk de corgi-honden, maar vreemde dingen doen ze wel. Foy aan Vanity Fair:
'Oh my god—the corgis. I'm not much of a dog person, to be perfectly frank. I really loved them, but they're just, in general...the corgis are odd. They love cheese, like cheddar cheese. These corgis are cheesed up to the max—they're eating like a whole block of cheddar every day. It's scary.'
3. Matt Smith draagt in al z'n scènes een pruik
De acteur heeft zelf bruin haar, en dus moet hij een pruik op om de blonde Prins Philip te spelen. Ivana Primora, de hair & make-updesigner van de serie, aan Deadline:
'To achieve the likeness and the spirit of the time and the aging process, we had to resort to doing wigs. Matt Smith's not a blond, so we tried to get as close to the real characters as we possibly could.'
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4. Maar dat verhaal valt in het niet bij die keer hij bijna stierf op de set in een scène met paarden
Matt Smith aan The Graham Norton Show over het voorval:
'These horses were being a bit frisky. We were meant to get on them and trot off and have this lovely love scene, which didn't even make the cut. In my stupidity, I got on the horse and cantered around and then it just went. I tried to grab a branch and everyone was shouting, "Oh my God, don't grab the branch!" So I went under the branch and then down a ravine. I was so scared. As it galloped towards a herd of zebra, a huge man grabbed it by the reins and saved my life.'
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5. John Lithgow stopte katoenen pluisjes in zijn neus om net zo nasaal te klinken als Winston Churchill
Aan USA Today:
'It was rather repulsive watching me pluck cotton out of my nose after every scene, but they just had to put up with it.'
6. Geen van de scènes vond plaats in het echte Buckingham Palace
En denk ook maar niet dat de crew bouwtekeningen van het paleis heeft gekregen; ze deden veelvuldig mee aan Buckingham Palace-tours, waarbij ze tussen de toeristen stonden, om een idee te krijgen van het gebouw. Annie Sulzberger, die het research team leidt, aan Refinery 29:
'We went on tours. Like any other members of the public—and they had no idea why we were there.'
