Crown star Bonham Carter: ‘Netflix, it’s our moral duty!’ | Entertainment

entertainment">In The Crown: The Official Podcast says the 54-year-old actress: “It’s dramatized and I think it’s our moral duty to say, ‘Hold on, guys. This is not a docudrama, it is a drama. Those are two different things.'”

entertainment">Bonham Carter – who received Oscar nominations for her roles in The Wings of the Dove (1997) in The King’s Speech (2010) – adds that ‘the real documentary’ is the ‘astonishing investigative work’ that screenwriter Peter Morgan in advance. “When that is over, Peter changes a few things, after which he starts ‘juggling’.”

Fact and fiction

entertainment">In the most recent season of The Crown, season four, takes a closer look at Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s messy relationship. The negative way in which the royal family is portrayed and how things are going caused quite a stir.

entertainment">So insisted the British politician Oliver Dowden recently already joined the streaming service to add a disclaimer to the series. “It’s a beautiful piece of fiction, so like with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear at the beginning that it is fiction,” he said last weekend in The Daily Mail. “If that doesn’t happen, I think that a generation of viewers – who have not experienced these events – cannot distinguish fact from fiction.”

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