Except for the British writer and former politician Edwina Currie, no one might have said that ‘John Major is a very handsome man.’ Watch the new season of The Crown, Britain’s most boring Prime Minister will leave you foaming at the mouth.
The Major – who clearly didn’t advise Prince Charles to force his mother to abdicate in 1991 – is played by Jonny Lee Miller in ‘The Crown’. The actor is so clearly good-looking that putting on weird glasses and a floppy gray wig doesn’t detract from his charm.
Inappropriate sexuality is The Crown’s specialty. It’s a show that thought Gillian Anderson was the perfect actress to play the iconic Margaret Thatcher, whose obvious sex appeal has been passed down the generations like a sexy folk tale.
Prince Charles is played by Josh O’Connor, who is allergic to clothes, and in the new season, Dominic West, if he’s ever been to Eton.
Camilla Parker Bowles was played by the charming actress Emerald Fennell and this season is played by Olivia Williams. Olivia is the actress whose beauty actors like Bruce Welles said that when she was so close to him in the movie ‘The Sixth Sense’, he had to convince himself that she was alive.
It must be said that the physical attractiveness of the actors in The Crown has had absolutely no effect on its overall quality. It has always been one of the best series on television and its actors work between feeling rich and powerful, emotional drama and long series.
But I’m starting to worry about The Crown being so controversial this year. Everyone from Tony Blair to Dame Judi Dench has condemned its dramatization of real events. It’s not because the queen is dead and makes everyone feel existentially guilty, but because everyone in it is hot.
I must immediately interject here and clarify that sex appeal has absolutely nothing to do with physical attractiveness. When it comes to sexual charisma, the most aesthetically beautiful people on the planet can be downright evil. Just like someone who never appears on the cover of American fashion magazine ‘Vogue’ but can easily be the hottest person in any room.
Throughout history many members of the royal family have traditionally been very beautiful, but they have also been associated with many abominable things such as inherited wealth, the Prince Andrew affair, colonial rule and others. You even know what’s attractive? Conversation, repetition, humour, but all these things have at least been banished from them and because of the ‘rules’ of royal life. All that can be seen is a dignified silence, a The other has tight lips and lots of tweed fabric.
The political indifference is a bit more obvious in this show. Any good consumer knows that political leanings somehow make or break sex appeal, which is why all those breathless cries of ‘Dishi Rishi’ fell like a sick man’s bowl two years ago.
No matter how good someone looks, if they’re redistributing funds from deprived areas to pump them into the rich, you’re going to hit the limit of avoidance. So The Crown is bringing two Tory Prime Ministers to the screen in the form of FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the World 1997, and the one-time Mr Angelina Jolie is also frowned upon, which is not a fitting move.
And I can’t help but wonder if this is perhaps the reason for The Crown’s increasingly colorful reputation. Since it premiered in 2016, The Crown has largely stuck to the facts of royal history, only naturally with a few twists since it’s a Netflix drama series.
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British historian Lucy Worsley may not wander onto the screen every few minutes to point out that such-and-such a person really did such-and-such 30 years ago, but The Crown, for the most part, accurately portrays the truth. It is the product not only of the author Peter Morgan, but of a large team of researchers, sources and historians. Even some of the more outlandish scenes in the show seemed to actually happen, like Diana roller-skating around Buckingham Palace to the song Duran Duran.
Yet the perception persists that The Crown is some kind of anti-establishment propaganda machine, built on elaborate and elaborate lies or that it is a ‘malicious fiction’, as John Major grumbled last month, but Major’s In defense, don’t you think The Crown was vague nonsense. What if you hadn’t actually watched the show and just noticed how attractive this cast is? Surely a show starring the original James Bond, Timothy Dalton, as Princess Margaret’s great love, would have deviated the drama from other parts of the truth?
The Crown may be changing direction because of this kind of misguided criticism. They have already agreed to include a ‘fictional drama’ disclaimer in the new season. What’s next? Recast Jonny Lee Miller with a bag of flour? Just to reduce sex magnetism? We should not support it. The Crown may take our lives, but it will never diminish our strange love-based feelings.
‘The Crown’ series is streaming on Netflix.
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2024-09-19 22:31:07