The Reign Maker: Kristen Stewart becomes Princess Diana in the daring new drama SPENCER, and her sensational performance may just crown her queen of this awards season. Story by Leahbats
, is much trickier and more ambiguous than that — an intoxicating art-house swoon of ghost queens and scarecrows and tumbling pearls, pegged to a central performance all the more remarkable for its real-world nuance and vulnerability.
The screenplay by Steven Knight sets its parameters accordingly, confining the timeline to an unspecified Christmas holiday at the Queen's country estate, Sandringham, most likely within a year or two of Diana's final rupture with the House of Windsor in 1992.
As much as the film's narrative tends less toward traditional biopic structures than what Stewart calls a "distillation" and "a long tone poem" — one that includes, among other things, a soup-related hallucination and the ghost of Anne Boleyn — her performance is still rooted in real, painful truths. To find that essence, the actress leaned heavily into research, working with famed dialect coach William Conacher and immersing herself in piles of Diana lore.
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