The stolen dummy “The Crown” almost sparkles the murder investigation

The fifth season of “The Crown” arrives on Netflix on November 9th. In the midst of a promotional campaign, set designer Alison Harvey revealed to Variety what is arguably the craziest story of the entire photo shoot. As we have already informed you here, in February of this year there was a set robbery that caused production to lose about $ 200,000 in jewelry, memorabilia, antiques and more. The thieves took two full trucks loaded with items, but obviously not everything inside served them, so some things, like two mannequins, were thrown away.

“I think the funniest thing was when the police treated it like a murder investigation because one of the dummies was floating upside down in the river near where the robbery took place,” so they immediately thought: “We have a murder”, but in reality it was just a rubber doll. “, Harvey account, “It took a while to figure it out.” As an anecdote, the police investigating the death of a mannequin is priceless, but for the production it was a problem that they were distracted and did not take the robbery so seriously: “Finding the antiques was not his priority because [pensaban que] They had a murder to investigate. “adds Martin Childs, production designer.

According to Harvey, it is true that the doll in question was very realistic and in fact had an approximate value of around $ 15,000, which is why it confused the police so much: “He was absolutely identical to a person [muerta] naked. It was probably quite alarming for the police when they took him out. “

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“What a pity”, Harvey remembers, “They took some of the finest antiques we could get our hands on because we were recreating the Russian imperial family and the wealth of old Russia.” It refers, as the publication explains, to episode 6, which reflects the relations between British royalty and Soviet Russia. “A lot was lost, it was very sad. We put other things on set to cover up what was missing and it was nice, but it was a very sad moment.” Childs, who finds this whole story even less amusing, further explained that the trick is in the mirrors: “We use mirrors to help us get through it because the other thing mirrors do is double the amount of stuff you have on set.”. Apart from the floating mannequin, the police found neither the thieves nor the stolen items.

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The chapter in question begins with a flashback of the Romanovs, the Russian royal family, executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries shot dead on their beds. Subsequently, the revolutionaries bury the corpses in a mass grave in the middle of the forest. The plot revolves around a request made by Queen Elizabeth II to Boris Elstin to return the mortal remains and give them a worthy burial, since the family was related to that of her husband, Prince Philip.