Helena Bonham Carter Says End ‘The Crown’ Now
Helena Bonham Carter Says End #TheCrown Now: It’s No Longer ‘Historic Drama’ and Should Not ‘Carry On’ https://t.co/Ex7KODlrYY
- Variety (@Variety) February 1, 2023
Helena Bonham Carter said in a recent interview that Netflix’s “The Crown” should end now as it’s no longer a historical drama.
“I should be careful here too, but I don’t think they should carry on, actually,” Bonham Carter said. I’m in it and I loved my episodes, but it’s very different now. When ‘The Crown’ started it was a historic drama, and now it’s crashed into the present. But that’s up to them.”
Bonham Carter also turned down a question about Prince Harry’s buzzy new memoir, “Spare,” saying, “I don’t really want to contribute to the whole thing. It’s complicated and it’ll get taken out of context. And I think it’s been given enough attention.”
Back in 2021, Bonham Carter also came out against “The Crown” over whether Netflix should add a disclaimer to the series telling viewers it’s historical fiction. Recent seasons of the show have faced backlash and intense scrutiny from family and friends of the British royals for its dramatization of events, most notably the toxic marriage between Princess Diana and Prince Charles. There’s been an ongoing debate over adding a disclaimer to “The Crown.”
“It is dramatized,” Bonham Carter said on an official podcast for the series. “I do feel very strongly, because I think we have a moral responsibility to say, ‘Hang on guys, this is not… it’s not a drama-doc, we’re making a drama.’ So they are two different entities.”
The show is set to return for a sixth and planned final season that will cover the late 1990s and bring the show into the early 2000s.
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