FromCharlize Theronusing prosthetic teeth to play a serial killer inMonster, to Eddie Murphy’s fat suit inThe Nutty Professor, actors have long embraced elaborate physical transformations. But recreating the features of two of the most recognisable living Britons posed unique challenges forThe Crown, Netflix’s saga about the royal family.
Olivia Colman, who plays the Queen in the imminent third series, has disclosed new details of the lengths to which producers went to ensure that art accurately imitated life.
The key challenges? Matching the Queen’s piercing blue eyes and the Duke of Edinburgh’s receding hairline.
Colman, 45, who has brown eyes, was initially asked to wear blue contact lenses to emulate both the Queen and Claire Foy, who played the young Elizabeth…
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