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Variety’s Showrunners Sitdown: ‘The Crown’ Creator Peter Morgan on Almost Cutting Out Diana, Queen Elizabeth’s Death and Why His Next Project Will Have Guns
Peter Morgan, the creator of The Crown, on the series finale, how Elizabeth's death changed the show, fearing depicting Diana—and what's next for him.
The cast of “The Crown” rotated every two seasons, with Claire Foy, Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton successively performing in the lead role, as the Queen faced a changing, roiled world — and a shrunken British empire. You almost saw it through Blair’s eyes as he thought, “God, how am I going to shake these people up?” And how painful is it, as an elderly lady, to realize that you might suddenly be misjudging the mood of the country? If you’re doing something that has high visibility about a subject that is as discussed and turned over as the royal family, you are walking into an area where there will be people expressing opinions and trying to make money from it.
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