It was sent to me and I read the script
and I fell in love with the story I fell in love with the romance hmm
reminded me so much from holiday which is my favorite films and corrupt loving and watching that
movie and so I just thought have to be part of movie I know that people will go in see this
film enjoy themselves and go on this journey
with this young woman who's trying to grapple with her destiny and you know I think that's something
that we all experience coming of age is is the how do y
ou marry the expectations
that you have for yourself with with the expectations
that other have for you and so that was a real kind of something it resonated with me, erm and
then I sent in my audition tape and then I did
a live Skype audition with Julian and then I was offered the role and I
flew to London and I met Julian and I sat down with him for the first time in
person and midway through our meeting he looked at
me said "Oh my gosh you're so Canadian." and I thought, oh what have I gotten
myself into? But that fear kind of quickly transformed into it challenge and I tried really view approaching this role approaching playing the queen as challenge. He's a
father looking at a very particular moment in time where the world is on a cliff edge and he's afraid he's afraid, afraid for himself, he's afraid for his children and he's afraid for his country which he also sees as part of his family
I suppose and erm I suppose for me in one sense it was easy to identify with outside of the
character because I think you knows a middle-aged-late middle aged person myself, I feel quite afraid of the future and the I feel that way on
a similar kind of cliff somewhere and the futures not clear like erm like you used to be and so I think that's
one of the great things about the the about the story
that all the characters are inspiring
because the young characters a desperate to see
the world to get out of you know, their gilded cages and that's a
that's something that we can all identif
y with as well when we're young and
the older people are very wary of the the new world that's
starting so it's got lots have kinda deep
things going on even though it's a comedy as well. We shot on location for the entire film which is incredible, so all our exteriors were done in Hull where they've kinda recreated London at
that time and me and then and then all the
interiors were done at places like Chatsworth and Beaver Castle and then for the Knocking shop we actually shot
East London so ea
ch kind of set gave us a real kind of different energy, different
environment to kind of inhabit, so it was really it great
because it felt like we were there I think the Queen would... It must be very difficult when people are
reinventing story that you lived and certainly I think none of us are saying that every single moment in our story is
historical fact. It's a.. It's a.. It's a historical novel or romance built on a historical moment and but I'm sure it's difficult for her to look
at but
at the same time it's a kinda testament of her own
popularity that I think the film hopefully will be, you know, very
successful people love to see it theatricalised or cinematised. I do think she would have a laugh and I do you think she would enjoy it and I do think she would find it charming.
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