Judi Dench is joining the group of critics of “The Crown” to speak out against the “brutally unjust” and “wrong and harmful” fictional portrayal of the British monarchy leading up to the November 9 premiere of Season 5.
Keeping Netflix in an open letter (via) many times) on Thursday that it is “a brilliant but fictionalized account of events”, with UK acting royalty and Oscar-winners getting wind of the “injurious suggestions clearly implicit in the new series” they believe audiences needs a clear message that what they are seeing is more fiction than fact.
“I fear that a large number of viewers, especially overseas, may take his version of history to be completely true,” she wrote.
Going into Season 5, which covers the inner workings of the royal family during the 1990s, including Prince Charles’ highly publicized divorce from Princess Diana, Dench cites examples of alleged dramatization of Charles, including His mother was conspired to abdicate or was condemned by him to the upbringing of Queen Elizabeth II. Short enough to be worth jail time.
“This is both a brutal injustice to the individual and harmful to the institution,” Dench wrote. “There is no one greater believer in artistic freedom than me, but it cannot be challenged.”
“The closer the play gets to our present day, the more freely it sets out to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensation,” he said.
As such, Dench continued, she believes Netflix has publicly stated this week that “The Crown” has always been a “fantasy drama,” with the show producers carrying a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode. Has resisted all calls to go. , It’s time for Netflix to reconsider — for a family and a nation that has recently been bereaved, as an honor to a sovereign who so dutifully served his people for 70 years, and to his reputation. in order to maintain. their British customers. ,
The debate over whether ‘The Crown’ should include a disclaimer has been going on for a long time, with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, among others, the first of the series to allow viewers to “mistake fiction for fact”. Used to ridicule.
Dench is well acquainted with the on-screen dramatization of the royal family; Her work as Queen Elizabeth I in “Shakespeare in Love” earned her a supporting actress Oscar, and she played Queen Victoria in 2017’s “Victoria & Abdul.”
