Elizabeth Debicki says it wasn’t easy to shake the mannerisms of Princess Diana.
The 33-year-old actress says she had a hard time letting go of her role in The Crown, and was emulating the late royal “for a long while” after wrapping the series’ sixth and final season, via People.
“My voice changed quite a bit and I kind of had to consciously bring it back to my own voice where my voice wants to sit and also my own accent,” she said.
“I had to work so hard at getting the voice that I sort of ingrained it so deeply in myself that I had to unwind the wheel.”
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“Someone said to me, ‘I think you’re doing it when you’re trying to convince people something.’ If someone was like, ‘You can’t go that way.’ I [found] myself sort of saying, ‘Are you sure?’ And then I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m slipping into this.’”
“That has left me now, but I had to do it consciously,” she went on to say.