Simply final yr, Elizabeth opened up in regards to the weight of taking part in the late royal and recreating one of her biggest fashion moments.
“All of us felt the duty of the revenge dress as a result of it is one thing that everyone needed to see,” Elizabeth completely instructed E! Information in November 2022. “It is an extremely highly effective sartorial second within the historical past of vogue.”
The actress continued, “That gown is so emblematic of so many issues as a result of it is so courageous and exquisite, but it surely’s additionally so tinged with our understanding of what was happening on this particular person’s life. So the duality of that’s actually highly effective.”
Elizabeth famous that it took the costume division “many, many hours” of labor to copy the unique Christina Stambolian design, which Princess Diana wore in 1994 when her then-estranged husband King Charles III admitted to having an affair with now-wife Queen Consort Camilla.
“It is a highly effective gown,” Elizabeth shared. “It is a completely distinctive gown too—the construction of it, the form of it, the look of it—and so I definitely will not ever overlook that day on set. We shot it in the identical location that it really occurred, so there was this barely deep layering of issues happening that day.”