From Olivia Colman to Helen Mirren, the impossible task of playing the Queen. 🟠 Colman perhaps put the bind of playing the Queen at its simplest. It is so difficult because everyone has their own idea of her. “Everyone goes: ‘That’s not right’.”
The Queen was at once the most known person in the world, and the least – which made it a particular challenge to play her.
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, was portrayed by a number of actors on TV and film over the years – most famously by Claire Foy and Olivia Colman on Netflix’sThe AudienceAll three gave different performances – Foy’s young Queen was naïve; Colman’s was played a little more for laughs; Mirren’s was steelier – but each have commonly commented in interviews on how difficult the role was.
Foy had perhaps the most difficult job of these three actors, considering that there is less known about the Queen in her earlier years, before mass media took hold in the way we now know it. She said in the sameinterview that the Queen was “very challenging as a person for me to play because we’re not massively similar – vocally, physically. She’s a very in control, stoic person.
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