Will The Crown pause its filming out of respect for Queen Elizabeth II?

It is expected that The Crown take a break from filming its sixth season out of respect for the Queen isabel II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. Peter Morgan -screenwriter, creator and showrunner of The Crown– issued a statement to dead line about the death of the queen and its effect on the series of Netflix, winner of an Emmy award. ‘The Crown It’s a love letter to her and I have nothing to add for now, just silence and respect,” Morgan wrote. “I hope we stop recording also out of respect.”

Morgan also wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film The Queen, in which the Queen isabel II was played by Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for best actress. “I am in mourning, along with the rest of my country, for the passing of a great queen,” Mirren wrote to Vanity Fair. ‘I am proud to call myself Elizabethan times. If there was a definition of nobility, Elizabeth Windsor embodied it.’

According to dead lineBritish director Stephen Daldry, who produced and directed several episodes of The Crown between 2016 and 2019, previously stated that Netflix intended to pause filming if the queen died at any point in The Crown production: ‘None of us know when that time will come, but it would be right and proper to show respect to the queen. It would be a simple tribute and a sign of respect’, Daldry told the writer Baz Bamigboye, when The Crown it premiered in 2016. ‘It’s a world figure and it’s what we should do.’

The Crown follows the accession to the throne of Britain’s longest-serving monarch and her reign. Until now, the series has had two actresses who play Isabel II. Claire Foy portrayed a young Queen isabel II from the 1940s to the early 1960s in the first two seasons of the series and appeared briefly in the fourth season, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2018 and an Emmy for Guest Actress in 2021. In seasons three and four, Oscar winner Olivia Colman played the Queen isabel II from the 1960s to the early 1990s, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2021. The BAFTA winner, Imelda Stauntonwill play the monarch in her later years in the upcoming fifth and sixth seasons.

Netflix has recently announced that it has hired three actors to play Prince William and Kate Middleton in the show’s sixth season: Rufus Kampa and Ed McVey will portray William as a teenager and college student, respectively, and Meg Bellamy will play Kate. It is expected that the fifth season of The Crown premieres in Netflix in November.

Article originally published by Vanity Fair, vanityfair.com, adapted by Paola Zamarripa.