The star of Netflix's The Crown on what it takes to play one of the world's most famous women.
So many of Diana's characteristics and quirks feel essential for any actor playing her — her piercing stare, her whisper of a voice, even the posture of her hands when she's visibly nervous. But Debicki says she didn't feel pressure to emulate or respond to anything that's been done before. Instead, she wanted to find an inherent connection with the princess, both as a person and as a character written by show creator Peter Morgan.
Having confidence in her approach, however, doesn't mean the filming came without difficulties. Debicki was acutely aware that she'd be playing Diana at one of the most emotionally daunting eras of her life — a mere year before she died tragically at the age of 26 with her rumored fiancé Fayed at her side in Paris.
"It's a big journey in season five, and it sort of hits different levels of bottom. As an actor, when you come to work and you know that it's your job to play a scene that your character's really suffering through, the challenge is doing it the best you can and being as honest as you can," she explains. "Certainly the scenes of [Diana and Charles] getting divorced were really sad and really heavy.
Playing Diana means showing not only what happened in her life, but also gesturing at what could have been — a question that the public and media have continued to ponder in the decades after her death. One could argue we're experiencing a bout of Princess Diana fatigue, given how much material there is readily available to read and stream and watch about the late royal. With projects such asone wonders what much else can be said about her life at this point.
"My love and appreciation for her — which so many people have — is deeper than ever. Now I understand how difficult the odds were at times and how she really triumphed through a lot of things," she says. "She was incredibly kind and generous, and she had the capacity to love people very deeply and understand that that's what people really need. People need to be loved. And that's an incredibly rare commodity and she gave it in spades her whole life.
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