Emma Corrin wants to do the late Princess Diana “proud” with ‘The Crown’.
The 24-year-old actress portrays the late royal – who died in a car crash in 1997 – in the upcoming new series of the Netflix regal drama and while she’s trying not to pay too much attention to public expectations, she wants to feel the princess would have been happy with her performance.
She said: “Everyone has this ownership. [Public expectation has been] overwhelming since the beginning.”
Explaining she wants to do Diana proud, she added: “I know that’s strange and cheesy, but I feel like I know her.”
Emma also spoke to Diana’s former private secretary, Patrick Jephson, and got a better sense of the princess’ natural happiness from him.
She told Sunday Times magazine: “I got a sense of her joy from him. He said she was so naturally happy. When she joined the royal family, she had come from living with flatmates in Earls Court and she was a very normal girl. Patrick said she was still full of that girlish silliness, very down to earth.”
