People Are Just Realising What Coyote Ugly Was Actually Based On

Posted on 24/11/2023 by Boris Clair

What do the Julia Roberts 2010 flick “Eat, Pray, Love” and the cult classic Coyote Ugly, released a decade before it, have in common? It’s not the vibes, it’s definitely not the soundtracks, it’s actually author Elizabeth Gilbert.

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of bestselling books such as Eat Pray Love and Big Magic is actually at least partly responsible for the big magic of Coyote Ugly.

That’s right, while the two might seem worlds apart, Elizabeth Gilbert was actually a bartender at the original Coyote Ugly bar in the East Village, NYC.

While in a Facebook post the writer said that she was “dancing on the bar and everything” at the time, she tended to opt for sensible shoes and long tops which isn’t quite the vibe we know and love.

How did Elizabeth Gilbert inspire the Coyote Ugly movie?

This has come to light following a TikTok creator called Alwyn Hamilton highlighting that the two films are related and, in fact, the protagonist in each movie is actually the same person, though they might seem lightyears apart in attitude and demeanour.

So, the bar-dancing, hip-swinging woman we saw in Coyote Ugly goes on to become the soul-searching, earth-wandering woman in Eat, Pray, Love.

The two stories were based on Elizabeth’s experiences. The Coyote Ugly days of her life were detailed in an essay written for GQ in 1997 called, ‘The Muse of the Coyote Ugly saloon’ and of course, Eat, Pray, Love is a memoir of Elizabeth’s breakdown and recovery and was published in 2006.

It might not be the most obvious double-bill but the two films give an insightful glimpse into the writer’s incredible life over two decades.

BBC Breakfast Disappears Off Air In The Middle Of Live Broadcast After On-Set Incident

Posted on 24/11/2023 by Boris Clair

BBC Breakfast was briefly pulled off air during Friday’s live broadcast due to an incident on set.

During the live show, viewers were left confused when a segment about the 20th anniversary of Concorde’s final voyage was suddenly interrupted by footage from BBC News.

“Where have you gone? We have BBC News?” one wrote on X (formerly Twitter), while another asked: “What’s happened? There was a thing about Concorde and now we’re just getting BBC News channel?”

“Has anyone else’s BBC Breakfast just switched to BBC News?” someone else asked.

Meanwhile, several BBC radio stations also switched their output, including Radio 5 Live, which media reporter Scott Bryan noted “had to go on its backup tape of news jingles and music.”

Fortunately, within a few minutes, regular programming resumed, with Naga Munchetty reassuring viewers that everything was back to normal after a small evacuation of the BBC building in Salford.

“You’re returning to BBC Breakfast. Apologies, we had an evacuation in the building, but we are back now, with you to keep you up to date with the latest in the news,” she explained.

Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty in the BBC Breakfast studio

A BBC spokesperson told HuffPost UK: “The programme was briefly off air this morning due to an evacuation at Quay House. BBC Breakfast switched to the BBC News Channel before resuming programming.”

This is far from the first time the BBC Breakfast team have had to think on their feet live on air, though.

Earlier this year, correspondent Nina Warhurst had to contend with a protester interrupting an on-location segment, while the show was previously forced off air in 2022 due to a fire alarm incident.

BBC Breakfast airs every Monday through Saturday from 6am on BBC One.

People Are Only Just Realising Who Played The Husband In Barbie

Posted on 23/11/2023 by Boris Clair

Our favourite plastic fantastic movie this year, Barbie, was praised for a lot of its feminist messaging and for being a celebration of all things girlhood, but there may be one extra exciting wholesome detail that viewers missed.

If you cast your mind back on this dreary day to the flick that took over our bright summer, you’ll remember brief glances at Gloria’s husband. Gloria, played by America Ferrera, was the mother responsible for Barbie’s spiritual awakening.

At one point in the film, Gloria’s husband, played by Ryan Piers Williams, is learning Spanish on popular language app DuoLingo whilst seated on the sofa in their shared home.

Well, it turns out that almost all of this is accidentally based on reality…!

It turns out that actually, America Ferrera and Ryan Piers Williams are married in real life, and according to an interview with Greta Gerwig featured in a TikTok video, it had been written into the script that Gloria’s husband would be trying to learn to speak Spanish.

However, when America saw this, she said, “did you write this because my husband is always learning Spanish?!” before telling Greta that her husband was actually in the other room at that moment, learning Spanish! Greta admitted that this was not actually intentional but was delighted.

From there, Greta actually hired him for the part. The director described him as a “lovely, most wonderful person” and added that he was “so game” to take part in the film.

Greta added that during the cutaway scene, America was actually behind the camera giving direction to her husband in something the director described as feeling “very familial”.

‘Scream 7’ Director Had 1-Tweet Reaction After Melissa Barrera Was Fired From Movie

Posted on 22/11/2023 by Boris Clair

Director Christopher Landon offered a short, but succinct, reaction to news that actor Melissa Barrera had been fired from his forthcoming movie, “Scream VII,” after making a series of controversial social media posts about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

“This is my statement,” Landon wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday, along with a broken heart emoji. “Everything sucks. Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make.”

The filmmaker deleted the post shortly afterward, but it was captured for posterity by Newsweek and Deadline, among other outlets.

Spyglass Media Group, which is set to produce “Scream VII,” confirmed to Variety in a statement Wednesday that Barrera had been dropped from the the film due to social media posts the company had deemed antisemitic.

“Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech,” the statement read.

The company didn’t specify exactly which of Barrera’s posts they felt had crossed the line. In one of her Instagram Stories last month, however, the Mexican actor blasted “Western” outlets for only showing “the [Israeli] side” of the conflict, before noting: “Why do they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself.”

Melissa Barrera attends the New York premiere of "Scream VI" in March. — Melissa Barrera attends the New York premiere of “Scream VI” in March.

In another post, she wrote: “I too come from a colonised country. Palestine WILL be free. They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.”

HuffPost reached out to a representative for Barrera for comment, but did not immediately hear back.

The Israel-Hamas conflict has proven to be a contentious issue across Hollywood. On Tuesday, actor Susan Sarandon was reportedly dropped by the United Talent Agency for remarks she made at a pro-Palestinian rally that was held in New York earlier this month.

Just how “Scream VII” will recalibrate following Barrera’s exit remains to be seen. She first appeared in 2021’s “Scream” as Sam Carpenter, the daughter of late serial killer Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), from the 1996 original. She reprised the role in “Scream VI,” released in March.

People Are Only Just Realising Who Kaiser Chiefs’ Hit Song Ruby Was Actually About

Posted on 22/11/2023 by Boris Clair

Cast your minds all the way back to 2007 – we were all wearing the tightest skinny jeans we could find, drinking cider in the park and permanently had Ruby by the Kaiser Chiefs blasting out of our Sony Ericcson Walkman phones.

However, if you thought lead singer Ricky Wilson was singing about a long lost love, think again.

Former drummer and songwriter for the Leeds group, Nick Hodgson, has shared the true inspiration behind the chart-topper – and it’s safe to say you won’t have predicted this one.

As well as being the group’s first number one single in the UK, Ruby was also about… a dog.

“At the time we didn’t say who Ruby was,” he explained. “But I can tell you now that Ruby was a dog.”

“I played the verse, and I kept playing it round and round, and Ruby walked in and to the room and I just started singing Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby.”

This isn’t actually the first time Hodgson has revealed the truth behind the song’s inspiration. Taking to TikTok, the former Kaiser Chief’s drummer explained: “Ruby was our family dog. When I was writing it Ruby (the dog) walked in. I’m very glad she did.”

Now, where did I put those skin-tight drainpipe trousers…

For Anyone Who Knows Life After Grief, Ed Sheeran’s Autumn Variation Shows Are A Joyful Celebration

Posted on 20/11/2023 by Boris Clair

It was fitting there was a giant broken heart with a plaster hanging just behind Ed Sheeran as he played his Last Days of Autumn gigs at the Royal Albert Hall in London this weekend.

Sheeran performed just two evenings dedicated to playing his latest album – which was released on his own record label – from start to finish. These were the only two nights he’ll ever do this, he explained to the crowd. It was his way of keeping the album inspired by Elgar’s Enigma Variations and co-created with Aaron Dessner ‘special’.

And ‘special’ it was.

If you’ve been keeping up with Sheeran’s output this year – aside from hot sauces, guitars and serving up hot dogs – you’ll know he released two albums in four months, as well as a personal and revealing docuseries called The Sum Of It All.

During the promotion cycle for his album Subtract, Sheeran played several gigs where he performed the entire album in full – and in those shows, we see a grief and stress-ridden Sheeran break down in tears several times on stage, as he tries to explain the meaning of these intensely personal songs.

At one such moment captured in his docuseries, his wife Cherry Seaborn looks on worriedly, saying “I’ve never seen him cry on stage,” adding that he “hasn’t had the time to process and be at peace with his thoughts”.

It is rare to see such a real-time look at grief, and watching Sheeran try to hold back the tide while in public and on stage feels brutally familiar for anyone who has experienced the clusterfuck that is the grieving process. Fan or not, those moments are heartbreaking, and they’re as uncomfortable to watch as they are important.

So, for many of us huddled in the Royal Albert Hall this weekend, our most recent memories of seeing Sheeran standing in theatre and playing an entire album back-to-back are ones of sadness and vulnerability.

Which is why the giant broken heart with a plaster – illustrated by his friend Scarlett Curtis – felt like the perfect symbol for Sheeran’s weekend performances of Autumn Variations.

Ed Sheeran performs at the Royal Albert Hall, 19 November 2023

Instead of the grief-stricken image – Sheeran appeared joyful, processed. And – to roll with the autumnal theme here – he looked, literally, as if he had turned over a new leaf.

Bouncing on stage to open the show with the first track of Autumn Variations, Magical, Sheeran then stopped between each song to give a bit of backstory – including using the phrase ‘getting shit-canned’ to describe how Brits deal with both the dwindling light and warmth of late autumn.

It was interesting to note how, when speaking to the audience, he can now reference the period of his life that was met with grief and anxiety as just ‘Subtract’ or ‘what was going on when I wrote that album’ without having to spell it out.

Spelling it out, when somebody you love has just died or you’re going through a period of extreme stress, can be exhausting. Like having a wound reopened without warning – an unexpected retraumatisation.

There are plenty of times it can feel as though it would feel infinitely easier if everyone just knew – and Subtract is now that reference for Sheeran. You can still feel the weight of it – it’s part of Autumn Variations’ story – but it no longer feels like he is literally the vessel referenced in Boat, no longer is he being battered by unrelenting waves of grief and uncertainty.

Both musically and in his performances, Sheeran seems freed by the creative outlet that working with Aaron Dessner and having his own record label having afforded him. Subtract and Autumn Variations feel like Sheeran’s equivalent to Folklore and Evermore, with Dessner’s evocative use of strings and ‘soundscapes’ being the common thread between them.

A little bit country at moments, and a bit 90s at others, Sheeran and Autumn Variations felt truly at home in the iconic Royal Albert Hall.

Sheeran threw the crowd a little treat at the end of his Variations set, giving us a ‘million miles an hour’ whistle-stop tour of his big hits for being good girls and boys and sitting through this new album of his that he knows we’re ‘not as familiar with’.

Were we thrilled to stretch our legs and have a bit of a wiggle to Shape Of You after an hour of sitting? Of course. And I will never say no to watching Sheeran set up a song on his loop pedal or skip around stage belting out Shivers.

But this second act of the night seemed to reveal that he was perhaps a bit self-conscious about having us all in a room and not giving us what is essentially The Mathematical Eras Tour (Ed’s Version) – as if we were all locked in this hall against our will and force-fed a bizarre concept album. Far from a Ken staring uncomfortably into our eyes and singing at us for three hours – we were given a wholesome delivery of a wholesome album.

To me, seeing Sheeran live is a privilege – although I realise the many boyfriends who were no doubt dragged along may feel differently. To go from blasting out stadium shows ‘in the round’ with pyrotechnics, a rotating stage and a mega setlist – to then meaningfully fill and captivate an audience at the Royal Albert Hall with an album like Autumn Variations, and then end the night singing acapella, without any amplification – is skilful and impressive. To do it all with a mending heart makes it even more special.

That’s the thing the cool kids still don’t seem to want want to admit – Ed Sheeran is a special artist. And The Last Days of Autumn performances felt like a true celebration of a new era of Sheeran’s career and artistry, where he can create music, for both job and hobby, and have if feel lighter and freer – and perhaps even a little bit magical.

24 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets You Probably Didn’t Know About The Crown

Posted on 17/11/2023 by Boris Clair

The sixth season of The Crown upon us, drawing to a close one of the most internationally successful British dramas of all time.

Three casts of actors have played Queen Elizabeth II and her family since the show debuted in 2016, covering some of the most significant moments in recent history through the lens of the British monarchy.

As the Emmy-winning show returns to screens for the final time, we’ve looked back at The Crown’s seven year legacy to bring you the behind-the-scenes facts you never knew about the show…

1. It costs a lot to make

In January this year, Forbes reported that season five of The Crown became the most expensive instalment in the history of the show, with production costs reaching $143.3 million (£115.7 million) according to financial statements.

That brought Sony’s Left Bank Pictures (LBP) division, which makes The Crown, to a total of $504 million (£407.1 million) spent on royal drama since it premiered in 2016.

2. Olivia Colman really struggled with one detail when it came to playing The Queen

Queen Elizabeth II was famously stoic. Olivia Colman, on the other hand, is not. That meant she struggled to maintain a stiff upper lip in the more emotional scenes.

“My problem is, I emote,” Olivia told Variety. “The Queen is not meant to do it. She’s got to be a rock for everyone, and [has] been trained not to. We’ve discovered that I can’t do it. But I’ve come up with a little trick. It’s sort of shameful.”

But the team found a way around this so that, whenever Olivia had to react to a sad scene, they would give her an earpiece and play the shipping forecast – a BBC Radio broadcast of the weather and seas around the British Isles.

“I’m sort of not listening to what [the other actors are] saying. I’m trying so hard to tune into the shipping forecast and not cry,” she said.

3. Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin had very simple tactics to get into character

The two actors portrayed younger versions of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, respectively, in season four of the crown. They revealed some effective strategies to snap into character while on The Graham Norton Show. Josh noted that he would replicate a body language sequence that he claimed the now King still did as of three years ago. He noticed when emerging from a car, Charles would touch both cufflinks of his sleeves, check his pocket square, then wave.

Emma’s trick to get into Diana’s voice was to speak with a certain rhythm where the tone always went down at the end. The specific word to help them get into the character was “alright”.

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4. Claire Foy, Matt Smith and Vanessa Kirby sometimes stayed in the accents on set

They may all have British accents, but speaking in the Queen’s English was a much more challenging task for Claire Foy, Matt Smith (Prince Philip) and Vanessa Kirby (Princess Margaret). To help ensure their voices remained accurate and convincing, the cast sometimes chose to just speak in the dialect on the set, as revealed by Vanessa in an interview with MTV.

5. Actors would watch silent clips of the royals to capture their mannerisms

As part of their preparations to step into their roles, the cast were instructed by supervising dialect coach William Conacher to watch video clips with no volume, in order to focus on their body language. “First thing I say is nobody needs to do an impression and I don’t believe anybody ever has on this show,” he told Reuters.

“It’s more about analysing what the face does, what the mouth does, what the head does, and then letting your voice come through that shape.”

6. Claire Foy was able to get into character with a single word

Claire Foy getting final touches before the scene

When Claire Foy needed to nail the cut glass English accent of a young Queen Elizabeth II, she would simply utter “one” with her lips turned down, she shared to MTV. It clearly worked, as the actor went on to win two Emmys and Golden Globe for her performance.

7. But she initially feared she’d made a terrible mistake joining the show

It’s no secret that The Crown features a huge variety of filming locations, including the royals’ Balmoral home in the Scottish highlands. It turns out this was a huge undertaking for new mum Claire Foy, who was still breastfeeding during filming.

“On the first day of filming, I found myself halfway up a Scottish mountain with engorged boobs and no way of getting down to feed my baby,” she told British Vogue. “I had to ring my husband and tell him to give her formula… as I sat in a Land Rover trying to get my broken breast pump to work, I felt I’d made the worst mistake of my life.”

The actor said it felt like someone had “stamped on my heart” when she realised she couldn’t properly feed her child. She also shared on the The Graham Norton Show that she felt she was “such a huge idiot” and a “lunatic” for going back to work four months after giving birth.

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8. She was almost overlooked for the role altogether

It’s hard to imagine anyone else playing the first Queen Elizabeth, but Claire Foy apparently didn’t make too much of an impression early on in the cast process.

Writer Peter Morgan told Variety that it was only after four read-throughs – during which he’d only attended to watch “actress A or B” – that he noticed Claire. “This one is sensational, who’s this?” he asked, before being told, “Pete, she’s been in four times. And you’ve gone for a better-known actress.”

9. Felicity Jones reportedly auditioned to play The Queen

Back in 2014 (The Crown came out in 2016), the Mirror reported that Rogue One star Felicity Jones portrayed a young Queen Elizabeth in a special reading of early scripts for the show.

Apparently actors were hand picked to read for executives from Netflix. An executive told The Mirror at the time that they were “just beginning the process”.

10. Elizabeth Debicki auditioned for much smaller role in season two before landing Princess Diana

Princess Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown

While Elizabeth Debicki’s casting as the people’s princess in season five and six of The Crown feels spot on, but Elizabeth Debicki originally had her sights set on a much smaller role.

The actor didn’t reveal what role it was she auditioned for, but told Glamour that “it was not anything you would imagine. When my agent said, “Go and audition for this,” I was like, “Really? Okay.”

She explained: “I auditioned for a small role in season two. I went in for the part, and the people in the room saw something in that audition that was wrong for the role I was auditioning for and right for Diana. So it was very unexpected for me. And then over the few years that followed that, I had hoped that it would come around, but I didn’t know for sure. And then it did.”

11. Some of the cast have already played royals

The royal family are some of the most challenging roles any actor could play. But some in The Crown cast had already played royals. Claire Foy, for example, played Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall.

Olivia Colman, who took over as an older Queen Elizabeth in season three, played the 18th century Queen Anne in The Favourite 2018, which won her an Oscar. She also played the Queen Mother in Hyde Park on Hudson.

12. Claire Foy was originally paid less than Matt Smith

The gender pay gap was very present in the first season of The Crown. During the INTV Conference in Jerusalem in 2018, producers Suzanne Mackie and Andy Harries were asked if Claire Foy was paid more than Matt Smith. They acknowledged that he did make more due to his Doctor Who fame, according to Variety, but said they would rectify that in the future. “Going forward, no one gets paid more than the Queen,” said Mackie.

It seemed the show did address this in future seasons, with Tobias Menzies telling Harper’s Bazaar in 2019 that “my understanding is, that this time round, I’m paid less than Olivia”.

13. Dominic West almost quit a charity role over his casting as Prince Charles

Dominic West as Prince Charles in The Crown

It’s no easy feat to portray such an important and recognisable public figure – one who would go on to become the king, no less. In a bid to keep things professional, Dominic West offered to quit his position as an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust in case there was a conflict of interest. But his request was turned down by Charles’ private secretary. The letter essentially said, per Radio Times: “You do what you like, you’re an actor. It’s nothing to do with us.”

West added: “I think that’s probably how [Charles] regards it. I’ve been in a line to shake his hand a few times and it’s fascinating. It’s very useful to meet the character you’re playing, obviously.”

14. Elizabeth Debicki found the fake paparazzi “incredibly invasive”

Princess Diana was infamously hounded by paparazzi after her divorce from Prince Charles, and it turns out even Elizabeth Debicki struggled with reenacting that.

“It was difficult to recreate,” she told Netflix (via Variety). “It was heavy and very manic, and incredibly invasive. And it had a kind of pressure to it,” she added, describing it as a “really unpleasant experience”

15. The portrayal of Diana’s death was approached very carefully

There are many shocking moments throughout The Crown, but Diana’s death was the episode that creators faced the most pressure with when it came to striking the right tone.

Season six depicts her 1997 trip to Paris with boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed, which ended in tragedy when they were involved in a fatal car crash after being chased by paparazzi.

This part of the series was approached “delicately” and “thoughtfully”, according to executive producer Suzanne Mackie. Creator Peter Morgan also insisted they were “never” going to show the crash itself.

16. Production paused after the Queen’s death

When Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, filming on the show was temporarily paused. “As a mark of respect, filming on The Crown was suspended today. Filming will also be suspended on the day of Her Majesty The Queen’s funeral,” Netflix said in a statement.

17. Imelda Staunton struggled to return to work after the Queen’s death

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth during the penultimate series of The Crown

Imelda Staunton portrays the Queen in her later years, which means she struggled to get back into character after the monarch died. “It was quite difficult, to be honest,” Imelda told Radio Times.

“We carried on with as much dignity and grace as they have always had on The Crown, but obviously there was a very different temperature in the world, in England and even more so on set.”

She added: “We couldn’t do anything differently; I had to carry on. But we were all a wee bit sad.”

18. There was one character the show’s costume designer really wanted to get right

The Crown’s fourth season may have got through 400 different costumes, but the one designer that Amy Roberts struggled with most didn’t belong to a royal. Rather, it was palace intruder Michael Fagan, who makes his way into the Queen’s bedroom and laments about his economic and social hopelessness.

“I so wanted to get the character of him right,” Amy told Glamour. “I didn’t want to fail what he was about and what a broken Britain was about.”

19. A heist on the set in 2022 saw over 350 props stolen from the show

It turns out that even the props used on The Crown are worth a lot. Back in February 2022, over $200,000 worth of props from the set were stolen while the production was shooting nearby. Among the 350 items stolen were a replica Fabergé egg, a grandfather clock clockface and crystal glassware. It occurred when three vehicles were broken into in a lorry park in Mexborough in Yorkshire, according to Variety.

20. Prince Harry actually fact checks the show

It’s the question everyone wants to know the answer to. Do the real royal family watch The Crown? It turns out that not only has Prince Harry watched the show, but he even fact checks it. “Yes, I have actually watched The Crown,” he told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, clarifying, “the older stuff and the more recent stuff.”

When asked if he does any “fact-checking” while watching the series, he replied, “Yes, I do, actually. Which, by the way, is another reason why it’s so important that history has it right.”

Prince Harry even addressed Matt Smith as “grandad” once, according to the actor, who plays a young Prince Philip. “He’d watched the show,” Matt said on The Today Show.

Harry also admitted to James Corden that he watched the series. “I’m way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife or myself… They don’t pretend to be news, it’s fictional,” he said.

“But it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course it’s not strictly accurate, but… it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.”

21. The Queen watched it too, apparently

While Buckingham Palace has never officially confirmed it, the late Queen Elizabeth II also reportedly enjoyed watching the series. “I heard the Queen had watched it,” Matt Smith told Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on the Today Show. “And she used to watch it on a projector on Sunday night, apparently.”

However the actor said he knew that “Philip definitely didn’t” after a friend asked the late royal during a dinner party if he had watched the show. “Don’t be ridiculous,” the Duke Of Edinburgh apparently replied.

Royal commentator George Jobson made the same claim during the ABC broadcast of the Queen’s Elizabeth’s funeral coverage.

Actor Matt Smith, who famously played Prince Philip in the Netflix series “The Crown,” talks about his real-life interactions with members of the royal family.

He also opens up about his most-recent role as Daemon Targaryen on #HouseOfTheDragon pic.twitter.com/U10MJArXL5

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 15, 2022

22. Camilla joked about The Crown when she met Dominic West

Prince Harry isn’t the only one to have addressed an actor from the crown with their on screen names. Dominic West told Radio Times that when the now Queen Consort met him at a party in 2021, she jokingly called him “Your Majesty”, seemingly in a nod of approval at the casting.

23. Paul Bettany was almost cast as Prince Philip for Seasons 3 and 4

The Avengers star was reportedly nearing a deal to replace Matt Smith as Prince Philip back in 2018. However, just days after the news emerged, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that sources said the actor had a scheduling conflict and was no longer able to take over the role.

24. The first language of the new Prince Harry actor is Welsh

14-year-old Fflyn Edwards, who plays a young Prince Harry in the final season of The Crown, experienced a bigger learning curve on set than most – having to speak English all day. The young actor is from Carmarthenshire and his first language is Welsh.

“Talking in English for a long time does make me miss the language, and speaking to someone [in Welsh] does feel like home,” he told the BBC.

The Crown season six part one is streaming on Netflix now, with part two dropping on 14 December.