"Crown" Queen Elizabeth First look: Goodbye Claire Foy, Hello Olivia Colman



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The reign of Olivia Colman began. On Monday, Netflix released a first look at the actress playing Queen Elizabeth II in the upcoming season of the winning series Emmy The Crown . In the picture, Colman is in character as a reigning monarch, wearing a pink coat and beads and having a tea spot. The photo is accompanied by a simple caption: "Patience". Easier to say than to do, Netflix, considering season 3 of the series will only air in 2019.

Colman replaces Claire Foy who played a more version young queen in seasons 1 and 2. The role made an actress star, who won a Golden Globe and won two Emmy nominations for her performance. (You can see her in a completely unrecognizable ride as the hacker Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider Web. )

Season 3 of the series will advance in time , requiring that the entire main distribution be replaced by a new coterie of stars. In addition to Colman, Helena Bonham Carter will play an older version of Princess Margaret (previously played by Vanessa Kirby ); Tobias Menzies will play Prince Philip (previously played by Matt Smith ); and Ben Daniels will play Lord Snowdon (previously played by Matthew Goode ).

In an interview with Variety in February, creator show Peter Morgan explained how the show landed on Colman for the role of Elizabeth II.

"I think we all felt that Olivia had something that matched [to what we wanted] this ability to be both clear and dazzling, knowable and unknowable," he said in February. And then we called her, and she said yes on the phone. "

And why not her? The sumptuous royal drama is undoubtedly the jewel of Netflix's television series, an expensive and refined series that has has attracted the attention of awards circles.The very latest Colman still is the first real teaser that Netflix has released for the upcoming season of the show, which, again, will come out in a thousand or so years. years, aka 2019.

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