The Crown - series 3

[southeastdweller]

I'm so looking forward to seeing this when it returns next Sunday!

The intro music is amazing. The only other intro music I love in the same way is the game of thrones one. Beautiful!

Now that Charles Dance has been cast as Mountbatten, I wonder who they can use for a much older PP? He would have been prefect, but obviously not now. I agree Imelda Staunton would have been great, but perhaps she is could be on the cards to play an older QE in later series, as 60 episodes are planned. It’s easier to age people up than down, I think, maybe a television make up artist on here could tell us.

One of the things I so love about the intro is the way the closeups of the crown being created also look a little bit like jail bars at moments - the gilded cage really shows here.

CoolCarrie I'm determined for Iain Glen to be in it in some capacity or other, so I'm nominating him for Older Prince Philip.

Imelda Staunton has been confirmed for seasons 5 and 6, @CoolCarrie.

I agree she does look a bit like a kitchen cook, but then the Duke of Windsor referred to the QM as "Cookie" so maybe not such a stretch to cast Imelda S as her daughter!

I think what comes home to me is that they are prisoners in a gilded cage. Pacing up and down, bored out of their minds. What a life.

Imelda played an aristocrat in the recent Downton film so she knows how to posh up! I'm trying to think who play the DoE. David Threlfall (yes, Frank Gallagher from Shameless!) was pretty good in the TV movie about Princess M some years ago. Maybe they could ask him again?

Actually having done a bit more googling, IS is less certain. The Guardian says she is "reportedly" taking in the role. Netflix are denying it. We'll just have to wait and see,

How about Jeremy Irons for PP? I think it could work.

I reckon Michael Sheen could play the Queen, he seems able to metamorphosize into just about any other human being in every part I've seen him in.

@Myimaginarycathasfleas oh yes, good call.

Or perhaps Bill Nighy?

Oh god no, not Bill Nighy. Sorry, I know he's a Much Beloved National Treasure and all that, but I really can't bear him - he never seems to be able to make eye contact with whoever he's talking to and he just mumbles his lines through pursed lips in exactly the same way in everything he's in, whatever role he's playing.

I do like Imelda Staunton and I think she has more range than people give her credit for. I'm not sure what a kitchen maid is supposed to look like anyway - it is because she has quite a round face instead of aristocratic cheekbones or something? The Queen herself has looked like a Monty Python Pepperpot lady since about 1980 anyway!

Couldn't we find a part for the lovely Jim Carter in later series?

@Housewife2010 Porchy!

@SpiderCharlotte Some hair dye and makeup and Michael could reprise Tony Blair!

Just watched episode 4 and wondering why they made up all that stuff about the Guardian interview with Princess Alice? She had been at the palace for two years before the programme was made anyway. I also don't remember lots of negative reviews of the documentary, everyone I knew loved it. Very bizarre.
There were quite a few annoying historical misrepresentations in the first two series, but this one is a bit ridiculous.

Nighy's best and most believable role was when he was eaten by zombies in Shaun of the Dead imo

@QueenOfTheAndals @Housewife2010

He'd make a good Ron Ferguson as well.

I am delighted about Imelda , she will be brilliant, loved her in Cranford , she is so versatile ; Vera Drake and Mama Rose were her best performance s so far.

May I add my voice to the 'Dear Lord no, not Bill Nighy!' chorus. I'm sure he's a nice man but I find him deeply irritating to watch.

I also think - if they're determined to cast high-profile actors - that they may have 'wasted' Charles Dance on the Mountbatten role. He would have been a very good choice for the older DOE, although as I've said before, I really think casting lesser known actors is better in series like this. Cheaper too!

Been wondering where I recognise Tobias Menzies from .... he is in the very funny /sad This Way Up with Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan.

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Or perhaps Bill Nighy?

That really would be the nail in the coffin

Has Nigel Havers been in it yet?

I thought of Nigel Havers but I'm not sure what part would suit him. He's so genial in everything, I'm not sure he could do irrascible royal!