Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip next face the '60s in 'The Crown,' says Claire Foy, and they don't handle it well
by By Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
Aug 17, 2017
4 minutes
Claire Foy has spent most of the last two years playing Queen Elizabeth for the Emmy-nominated Netflix period drama "The Crown," wearing tiaras and tartan, acting with the utmost reserve and enduring loads of questions about whether playing a monarch improves one's posture.
On the latter front, Foy laughs off any illusions of regality, happily slouching in a leather chair throughout a leisurely interview at Netflix's curated Emmy promotional space in Beverly Hills. Fresh off a trans-Atlantic flight, London to Los Angeles, Foy is famished, devouring a Twix bar, only to find, minutes later, that somehow the chocolate worked its way into the designer trousers she borrowed for
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