Not long ago, the official trailer for the fifth season of Netflix’s hit drama “The Crown” was released. At the same time, a new wave of character posters and the first wave of stills were released. It was officially announced that the show will be officially launched on November 9. In this season’s plot, the “real crisis” of the British royal family is about to be staged. Diana and Charles set off a media war, and the foundation of the royal family began to crumble.
At the same time, the cast of the new season has also been changed almost entirely, with English actress Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, Dominic West as Prince Charles, and Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana.
The hit series “The Crown” has been in the spotlight since it began airing in 2016, and last year’s fourth season won all seven drama categories at the 73rd Primetime Emmy A show that swept the major theatrical categories. Among them, Emma Corrin, who played Princess Diana, was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
This season, Elizabeth Debicki, who succeeded Emma Colin, has also attracted much attention. As early as the early stage of the fifth season of last year, many of Reuters’s looks surprised everyone: it’s too expressive!
As a well-respected princess, Diana is also a fashion icon that is still loved by everyone. In recent years, there have been many films and episodes about her. In addition to “The Crown”, the movie “Spencer” released last year and the biographical drama “Diana” released in 2013 also attracted widespread attention.
▲ Kristen Stewart who played Princess Diana in “Spencer”
▲ Naomi Watts who played Princess Diana in “Diana”
Among all the actors of Princess Diana, Elizabeth Debicki is the most accepted by the public. Although she is not British, she is the one who is closest to Princess Diana in terms of facial features, appearance and temperament. Bit, from the trailers released so far and Reuters modeling, the similarity is better than the previous actors.
Since announcing Debicki as Princess Diana in season five of The Crown, she has been unanimously voted the most “look-alike” actor, and according to the crew, Debicki won all the awards in an internal meeting. People unanimously agreed, and even said that “finally found the perfect Diana candidate for the last two seasons of “The Crown”.
From the trailer released so far, I can see that her performance is indeed the same. The princess’s appearance is elegant but shy, and her inner forbearance and perseverance are appropriately interpreted.
Of course, what everyone pays most attention to is undoubtedly Debicki’s style in the play. Princess Diana has always been a fashion icon in the minds of many people around the world, and has left many classic and elegant styles for everyone.
This season’s costumes are still styled by Emmy-winning costume designer Amy Roberts, who has been styling the show since Season 3 of The Crown. Judging from the styles that have been exposed so far, the restoration of this season’s clothing is almost 100%.
Among them, Debicki is undoubtedly the most classic “little black dress of revenge” style. When this group of Reuters pictures were released, they were really amazed. Whether it was hairstyle or jewelry and other details, it was almost the style of the princess back then. Perfect reproduction.
Let’s compare the performance of the “real” Princess Diana back then. Except for the slight differences in the figures of the two, there are almost no other problems. I have to say that more than 20 years later, this revenge dress designed by Greek designer Christina Stambolian is still not boring.
In addition, many of Debicki’s other looks in the play, without exception, restore the style of Princess Diana back then. For example, this floral dress that traveled with Charles has the same shoulder pad height and cutting method.
▲ Princess Diana
◀︎ Elizabeth Debicki
In addition, many other elegant dresses are also reproduced in the play. It can be seen that the costumes in the play are the same as the previous seasons. Although they are not exact replicas, their design inspirations are very accurate.
▲ Princess Diana
◀︎ Elizabeth Debicki
▲ Princess Diana
◀︎ Elizabeth Debicki
In addition to the perfect presentation of the key costumes, many of the princess’s daily travel styles are also well interpreted by Debicki. For example, this taro purple suit is very impressive.
▲ Princess Diana
◀︎ Elizabeth Debicki
In addition, there are many classic and versatile styles that are suitable for ordinary people to learn from every day, such as gray oversize suits, khaki coats… Each of them is a must-have item in the wardrobe of today’s fashionable girls.
▲ Princess Diana
◀︎ Elizabeth Debicki
▲ Princess Diana
◀︎ Elizabeth Debicki
Seeing these classic looks of Princess Diana performed by Debicki again, I can’t help but sigh, this is probably the charm of “classic” in fashion. A sense of the accumulation of time.
▲ Princess Diana
◀︎ Elizabeth Debicki
Returning to Elizabeth Debicki herself, many people’s impression of her may still be on the trait of “tall girl”. Indeed, the height of 1.9 meters is difficult to be ignored in the crowd, but this is also her suitable figure for acting One of the reasons for the equally tall Princess Diana.
Born in Paris in 1990, Debicki is of Irish descent to a Polish father, Australian mother and both ballerina parents. When Debicki was five years old, his parents and family moved to Melbourne, Australia.
Due to the influence of her parents, Debicki also became interested in ballet at a very young age, and received dance training, probably because of the foundation of ballet, her own body and temperament are very elegant, even when the stars are shining On the red carpet, she is often the most eye-catching one.
During her student days, Debicki had excellent grades. In high school, she gave up her ballet dream due to her height, and at the same time discovered her love for drama, so she began to turn her attention from ballet to drama performance. In 2010 , she started her acting career after completing a drama degree at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Due to his outstanding appearance, Debicki soon received an audition invitation after graduating from college. At the beginning, most of them were insignificant supporting roles until he met Baz Luhrmann, the director of the casting of “The Great Gatsby”. After seeing clips of Debic’s performance, they contacted Debic and brought him to Los Angeles to audition.
Debicki has since landed her first major role in The Great Gatsby as Jordan Baker, a childhood friend of heroine Daisy Buchanan.
In this role starring Leonardo DiCaprio and many other Hollywood heavyweights, Debicki’s performance is no less impressive. And because of her appropriate portrayal of the role, Debicki received a lot of praise, and also won the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for this film.
Most domestic fans also remember this tall actress with an angelic face from this drama. Debicki’s own career has also been greatly helped by the film. In 2012, she also appeared on the inner page of the Australian version of VOGUE’s December issue, and has also appeared on the covers of major magazines since then.
Although she has an outstanding appearance, her acting strength is also remarkable, and the many roles she has played since her debut have left a deep impression on everyone.
In 2015, she played a villain in Guy Ritchie’s spy film “The Man from UNCLE,” which is sometimes charming and sometimes handsome.
The 2016 BBC miniseries The Night Manager with “Hiddleston” Tom Hiddleston, in which the two played opposite each other also made audiences call it a perfect match, for which she was nominated for a Critics’ Choice TV category Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries/TV Movie.
Afterwards, although Debicki said that the roles she received for a long time were not the protagonists, she always tried her best to complete these roles, and she also won many awards.
In 2017, she played Eva in Australian actor Simon Baker’s directorial debut, Breath, for which she was again nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2018, she starred in the feature film “Widows” (Widows) directed by Steve McQueen, playing the housewife Alice in the film, she was nominated for the 53rd National Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress Award for this film, and the film was released Later, she received the best evaluation of her career.
In the action sci-fi film “Tenet” directed by Nolan, which became a global hit, she also had a very good performance in it. In the film, she played the famous painting appraiser Kat who is very interested in rare works of art.
It is not difficult to see that Debicki plays a wide range of roles. Whether it is a housewife or a cool female agent, she can always give everyone a performance that exceeds expectations. And this time, the role of Princess Diana in “The Crown” is undoubtedly another milestone role in her acting career.
And she is also very happy and addicted to having the opportunity to play this legendary role, “Princess Diana’s spirit, voice, face and smile are forever in people’s hearts, and it is a great honor to be able to join this extraordinary series, from I was completely fascinated by the first episode of “The Crown”.” With her previous perfect presentation as a foreshadowing, it makes people more and more looking forward to what kind of surprises she will bring us after the release of the feature film. The performance, you may wish to wait and see.
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