The Crown star Emma Corrin has revealed she has never been to Australia despite the fact that she recreated Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s 1983 Australian tour in the latest series of the Netflix historical drama.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph Australia, the 24-year-old said the scenes for the tour were actually filmed in Spain.
While Malaga was used as a backdrop for Sydney, the desert near the port city of Almería was used as the backdrop for the characters’ visit to Uluru.
Corrin revealed that she and her co-star, Josh O’Connor, would watch old clips of Charles and Diana on the tour to help recreate them.
“We'd pitch up somewhere in Malaga to do a scene and the director would bring along a laptop and we'd watch their version, not to repeat what they had done, but to get a flavour of the environment,” she told the publication.
“I haven't actually been to Australia, but you did feel you could be somewhere like that,” she added.
The Netflix series was filmed from August 2019 to March 2020.
The publication reported that the crew hired extras with Australian accents to help create an Australian environment in Spain.
Corrin has previously spoken about the pressures to play Diana, revealing she hates it when people refer to the late Princess as “iconic”.
“I hate being asked what it's like to play someone iconic,” she told Town and Country magazine.
“It makes her untouchable—the whole point was that she was touchable,” she added.
The actor also offered up her thoughts on what Diana made of the royal family.
“The coldness, the traditions, and the expectations of behavior… I don’t think she expected that,” Corrin said.
“I think she expected to join a family.”
The fourth series of The Crown lands on Netflix on 15 November.
