Judi Dench wrote an open letter calling out Netflix about “The Crown” — saying the new series should come with a disclaimer. https://t.co/YWvXYlZHVy pic.twitter.com/MTbkN6bGQu
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In a letter to The Times, the revered actress shares her concerns about the forthcoming new season of “The Crown,” writing that “the closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.”
“While many will recognise The Crown for the brilliant but fictionalised account of events that it is, I fear that a significant number of viewers, particularly overseas, may take its version of history as being wholly true,” Dench write. “Given some of the wounding suggestions apparently contained in the new series — that King Charles plotted for his mother to abdicate, for example, or once suggested his mother’s parenting was so deficient that she might have deserved a jail sentence — this is both cruelly unjust to the individuals and damaging to the institution they represent.” …
Dench added her concerns to those of former prime minister Sir John Major, who recently told The Mail that a scene purporting to show him and then Prince Charles (played by Dominic West) discussing a plot to oust his mother Queen Elizabeth when Major was in office was a “barrel load of malicious nonsense.”
Major called for a boycott of the show and Netflix reportedly defended the series as being “fictionalized drama.”
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