The actress who plays the late Princess Diana in Netflix’s series “The Crown” claimed that dealing with fake paparazzi on set felt “incredibly invasive.”
“The Crown” actress Elizabeth Debicki, who plays Princess Diana in the Netflix series, found herself empathizing with the late royal’s experience being hounded by paparazzi.
In an interview with Netflix conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strikes and recently published, Debicki claimed that working with the fake paparazzi on set felt “incredibly invasive” and acknowledged how someone in that real life situation would see it as “completely unbearable.”
The actress, who played Diana in the fifth and sixth final season of the show about the British Royal Family, described filming these tense confrontations between throngs of photographers and reporters desperate to get a photo of the late princess.
She told Netflix, “It was difficult to recreate. It was heavy and very manic, and incredibly invasive. And it had a kind of pressure to it.”
The paparazzi’s relentless pursuit of Diana “contributed to her death” the AP reported last year.
