Despite The Crown's controversy over painful moments in the history of the Royal family, actress Gillian Anderson believes the Netflix series has actually helped the Royals’ reputation.
recently for bringing up some of the more controversial and painful moments in the history of the Royal family, but Gillian Anderson believes the show has actually helped its reputation.
Playing former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of the drama, Gillian, 54, defended the Netflix series against claims it‘It’s a drama. There’s a lot of researchers involved and a lot of people checking and double-checking and triple-checking,’ she said.‘And if you knew the difference in those, you’d see there is a great deal of kindness and restraint.’
Gillian played Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season and says the writers had created ‘well rounded takes’ on the real-life figures She added to Total Film that ‘at the end of the day,’ they had been ‘incredibly compassionate and well-rounded takes on human beings’.Not mincing her words, Gillian added that there wouldn’t be anything to write about had the Royals not been involved in these scandals.‘I think the whole family is more internationally loved, celebrated and understood in a way that they wouldn’t be were it not for the show,’ she said.
While she likely had less pressure on her but not playing a member of the family, she admitted that she still held ‘so much fear’ before filming began.
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