Dominic West shares why he couldn’t turn down Prince Charles role in The Crown

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Dominic West has shared some perception into making the straightforward resolution to painting Prince Charles in The Crown.

The actor, 56, appeared on display screen in the fifth and sixth seasons of the Netflix sequence, a dramatisation of the British royal household from the Nineteen Fifties to the early 2000s.

As the then-prince, West portrayed Charles as he reacted to the premature demise of his ex-wife, Princess Diana (performed by Elizabeth Debicki), the aftermath, and his eventual wedding ceremony to Camilla (performed by Olivia Williams).

On Friday’s version (5 January) of The Graham Norton Show, West spoke about accepting the role of the monarch.

“There was an enormous pressure on The Crown because it was such a successful show before I went in, and Josh did such a great job,” he started, referring to Josh O’Connor’s portrayal of a youthful Prince Charles in seasons three and 4.

“But at the end of the day, you’ve got to do parts that appeal to you; not that many come along,” West continued.

“When you’ve got a juicy part like that, you can’t turn it down. I loved playing him, he was brilliant.”

The actor, additionally well-known for his roles in The Wire and The Affair, went on to disclose a few of his failsafe strategies for moving into character as Charles, together with pointing animatedly as he spoke.

“I saw many documentaries on him, one he did with Jonathan Dimbleby,” West defined.

“He’s on a plane, and he’s talking about, ‘I don’t do this for my own good, you know – I do this for jolly old Britain.’

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“And it was so funny, ‘jolly old Britain’, every time I was trying to get into him on set, I’d just go ‘jolly old Britain’. And I was in.”

Previously, West had expressed that he’d accepted the unlikeliness of receiving a knighthood in the longer term, as a consequence of his involvement in the programme.

“I suppose having to forgo the British Empire Medal that I might have got for services to acting,” he stated on BBC Radio. “It was alright for [Prince Philip actor Jonathan Pryce], who had already been knighted.”

West defined that he’d met Charles earlier than being forged because the royal, saying: “I have. I’ve done a bit of stuff for the Prince’s Trust so I’ve stood in line and shook his hand a couple of times, so not particularly intimate.”

However, West stated that after taking over the role, “those invitations dried up”.