The Crown's Josh O'Connor Talks Playing Your Favorite Royal Softboy, Prince Charles
To a point. I watched series one and two, I’m a great fan of the show, and I think you have to give credit to the audience’s intelligence and that sensitivity to understand that these are very much characters, and this is very much a work of fiction and drama. You have to hope and assume that audiences will understand that’s what it is, rather than link this too heavily to reality. We are working in fiction. But I guess there is a kind of responsibility to misrepresent.
I think the key to that scene, the thing that Olivia has that makes her performances so profound, in my opinion, is because of her warmth; it means that when she plays cold, it’s kind of shocking. It’s quite alarming. It’s always quite hard to do that. But whenever they called “cut,” we’re sort of joking around.
In my head, [Charles and Philip] are just not compatible, really. Princess Anne, I suppose, fits in better with Philip, whereas Charles is more sensitive, more emotionally articulate. We certainly talked about that, but as you say, it’s touched on, but not brilliantly, not extensively in this series. But certainly, the aim is to do a bit more of that, share a bit more of that in series four.
We technically worked together, but I think maybe we met once and spoke for, like, 10 seconds. So we started over ontogether, so we all worked on that in the knowledge that we were about to go on, but we never really actually shot anything together. So we kind of all met each other. Erin and I get on very well and realized, so it certainly helped that relationship.
Charles’s investiture scene was very grand, very solemn. Where was your head at that point? And did you have to learn to speak Welsh?] I did not know any Welsh. I spent months working on the Welsh, and that whole section is something I’m really proud of, and it was sort of epic. Being in Carnarvon Castle, it’s really interesting actually, because you look at Charles and you think he’s got it.
I think it’s an interesting place. There’s obviously that underlying feeling, the anger and the anguish and the upset that he hasn’t been able to marry the person he loves, essentially. I guess the cynicism of the meddling by the family is quite profound. If you’ve watched it since series one and two, there are echoes of how Margaret was treated, and so I guess you could describe it like a preemption of what’s to come.
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