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Kristen StewartembodiedPrincess Dianafrom head to toe in the upcoming biopicSpencer— but the head part involved a little help from the film’s hair department.
“If it wasn’t a wig, we would have had so much less time to shoot,” she toldEntertainment Weeklyfor this week’s cover story.
“And we were f—ingsprinting,” continues the actress, 31. “This was not padded or luxe in any way. We were balls to the wall, gunning through it. Which you can feel in the movie 10 or 15 minutes in — once it gets up and starts going, it doesn’t stop, it barrels. It felt that way to make it, too.”
Pablo Larraín’s fantastical biopic follows an anguished Diana as she joins the royal family for the Christmas holiday in 1991, a decisive weekend when she chooses once and for all to leave her fractured marriage toPrince Charles(Jack Farthing).
Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana inSpencer(2021).Shoebox Films
The year-long lead-up to royal couple’s separation (announced in December 1992) was dramatized in season 4 ofThe Crown, which Stewart said she watched before reporting to set.
“I watched it probably in one night,” she toldEW. “I think [actressEmma Corrin] did a really beautiful job. I mean, not to say that my opinion matters at all!” she adds, laughing. “But I loved her in it, truly.” (Stewart wasn’t alone — Corrin, 25,won the Golden Globefor her heartbreaking, one-season turn as the Princess of Wales.)
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Among the many whimsical elements of the upcoming film — including whatEWdescribes as a “soup-related hallucination and the ghost of Anne Boleyn” — will be a montage of the onscreen Diana expressing her complex frustration through her physicality.
Stewart explains, “At the end of every single day, there was 30 minutes of extra time to pick an outfit and for Pablo to pick a song in a room and just go. He said, ‘Because we’re not doing everything chronologically, we’re not doing a biopic, this is your chance to tell the whole story. All you need to do is inhabit the space and listen to the music and carry her with you, and everything you know about being in this place, and just see what happens. See if it comes out.'”
Spenceropens on November 5.
source: people.com
