Elisabetta, from ‘The Queen’ to ‘The Crown’: the queen told in films and TV series

In 2012 Queen Elizabeth made an appearance at the opening ceremony of the London Games accompanied by James Bond, the most famous of Her Majesty’s secret agents, played by Daniel Craig. But the relationship between Elizabeth II and the cinema goes far beyond the amusing video shot for the occasion, which ended with a fake parachute flight from a helicopter, before the queen appeared live in the stadium. The Queen and her long reign, in fact, have been at the center of numerous films as well as successful television series: this is the case of ‘The Crown’, by Netflix, born in 2016, now in its fourth season and with the fifth and the sixth already scheduled. A series that tells the entire journey taken by the queen, from when she was a girl in the post-war period to when she became an essential institution. Playing her as a young man is Claire Foy, who then handed over the baton to Olivia Colman: both won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series. In 2006 she played the role of the Sovereign in the big screen film ‘The Queen – The Queen ‘was a true veteran of the Seventh Art, British actress Helen Mirren. An interpretation that earned Mirren the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 2007 Academy Awards. popularity of the Queen of England. An inflexible sovereign in not wanting to publicly pay homage to Carlo’s ex-wife. Aiding her in this is an unusual ally: newly elected Labor leader Tony Blair played by Michael Sheen. Ten years later, in 2016, the queen is still starring in another film, ‘A Night with the Queen’. On May 8, 1945, the war was over and a sigh of relief can be breathed in the United Kingdom as well. There is a party in the streets and sisters Elizabeth and Margareth would like to join in the festivities too. Their mother is against it, but their father, King George VI, gives them permission to attend a party at the Ritz Hotel. The trouble begins when the rebel Margareth manages to sow the bodyguards in charge of accompanying them.In 2020 it is the turn of the short film ‘Voyage au bout de la nuit’, an original homage to the sovereign by Paolo Sorrentino included in the collective project in 17 episodes’ Homemade ‘, conceived by the Chilean Fabula and the Italian The Apartment for Netflix. Shot in full lockdown, the work is a seven-minute short film in which the Neapolitan director imagines a dialogue between Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Francis, with the first visiting the Vatican. The protagonists are puppets with the features of the aforementioned characters, the setting is obtained from the interiors and exteriors of Sorrentino’s house. The queen also appears in the 2021 film ‘Spencer’ directed by Pablo Larraín and scripted by Steven Knight. In the film that tells, through the imagination, the decision of Lady Diana (played by Kristen Stewart) to divorce the Prince, the inflexible sovereign is played by Stella Conet.