Dominic West Tells Us There Are “Tumultuous” Times Ahead For ‘The Crown’ During London Poetry Soiree
27.06.2022 - 15:39
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EXCLUSIVE: Dominic West, who portrays British monarch in-waiting Prince Charles in the upcoming fifth season of The Crown, has told us that season six, which shoots from August, “will be as tumultuous as it gets”, because it will explore the tragic death of Princess Diana.
Season five is already in the can and will stream on Netflix later this year.
West, star of TV hits The Wire and The Affair, and recent movie Downton Abbey: A New Era, spoke to Deadline on Sunday night during a poetry reading at London’s Delaunay restaurant.
The soiree, which included the recital of three T.S. Eliot poems, was held for The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, an event established thirty years ago by Hart, the novelist, poet and a leading light of London’s literary and theater set until her death in 2011. Hart’s 1991 novel Damage was adapted for the screen by David Hare and was directed by Louis Malle.
Princess Diana’s death will be tackled when The Crown, starring Elizabeth Debicki as Diana and Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, starts filming its sixth season in August. A table-read was held last week.
“It will be as tumultuous as it gets, I think,” West told us.
Despite occasional controversies surrounding Prince Charles, the actor would not hear a bad word about the heir to the British throne: “I love the man. He’s a force for good, he really is an extraordinary man.”
Last night’s poetry reading was hosted by Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi — who was married to Hart at the time of her death — and theater director and filmmaker Michael Grandage, director of Amazon’s upcoming film My Policeman, starring Harry Styles.
Readers on the night included veteran actors such as Deborah Findlay (The Split), Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal), Elizabeth