Elizabeth Debicki Actually Auditioned for The Crown in Season Two

The final return to the palace. The Crown is coming back for one more season — and filming got underway before season 5 even premiered.

Earlier this week, social media lit up as users excitedly uploaded the poster for the Elizabeth Banks-directed Cocaine Bear, imagining what a movie with that title might be like. They got some idea today when Universal dropped the bonkers first trailer for the film “inspired by the true story of a drug runner’s 1985 plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it.” The movie, billed as a character-driven thriller, seems to have a good bit of fun with the premise.

Back in 1985, drug smuggler Andrew C. Thornton II dropped a duffel bag of cocaine out of the airplane he was piloting to ease the aircraft’s load.

EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Sumner will star opposite Elizabeth Banks in A Mistake — the medical drama from writer-director Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning) that was first announced during the 2022 Cannes Market.

The Crown chronicles Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign on the Netflix series, but some of the late monarch’s loved ones are not fans of the fictionalized drama.

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has cast Johnny Flynn (Emma, Beast), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey, Mank) and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss to portray legendary stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and John Gielgud in The Motive and the Cue, a mouth-watering new play by Jack Thorne that explores how acting giants Burton and Gielgud staged Hamlet on Broadway in 1964.

was found of wire fraud and deliberately misleading investors. Now, 10 months later, she has finally received her sentence: years in prison and 3 years of supervised release, according to Law360 reporter Dorothy Atkins.

Netflix reacted to critics of The Crown by adding a dramatization disclaimer to season 5, but at least one viewer wasn’t impressed by the decision: Princess Diana‘s biographer, Andrew Morton.

A touching tribute! Elizabeth Debicki honored Princess Diana at the season 5 premiere of The Crown.

, would be daunting for anyone, and Academy Award-nominee Imelda Staunton is no exception. The veteran actor, best known for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Vera Drake, and the Downton Abbey films (opposite husband Jim Carter) tells Glamour that stepping into the late monarch's shoes for the fifth season of actually made her feel ill. “It was not easy for me,” she says on a recent Zoom during a break from filming of the Emmy-winning Netflix series.

has seen Elizabeth Debicki step out of the box in terms of her style, from her to the joyous Christopher John Rogers looks she's worn on the press tour. But the red carpet for the Netflix show dictated a classic mood that transcended the trend cycle.

bring a young Lady Diana Spencer to life on The Crown, and now that , we get to see how the character's style and shy personality has blossomed with the arrival of Elizabeth Debecki as a slightly older and wiser Princess Diana.“It’s so exciting getting a fresh new person,” Amy Roberts, The Crown's costume designer says on a recent video conference with Glamour. “It’s brilliant that there are these clear changes in their lives.

A solemn role. Elizabeth Debicki is the second actress to play Princess Diana on The Crown, and she’s been candid about wanting to ensure that her portrayal is respectful of the late royal.

, The Crown, which introduces a new cast for the final two seasons. While it's easy to spend the beginning of first episode doing commentary on how much the actors look or don't look like their real-life counterparts (as we did in season three when Olivia Colman took over from Claire Foy, etc.), that will quickly give way to the compelling storytelling and captivating performances.