The Crown, a hit Netflix show, was long rumored to return for a sixth and final season, but at least one former cast member disagrees with that plan. Helena Bonham Carter, who played Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister, in the third and fourth seasons of the historical drama, told The Guardian in a recent interview that she thinks the show should end now that it’s in the modern day.
“I have to be careful here too, but I don’t think they should continue, actually,” the actress told the publication. “I’m in it and I loved my episodes, but it’s very different now. When The Crown started it was a historical drama, and now it has moved into the present. But that’s up to them.”
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The statement came after a cautious response to Prince Harry’s much-discussed memoir Spare.
She said, “I don’t really want to contribute to the whole thing,” she said. “It is complicated and it is being taken out of context. And I think enough attention has been paid to it.”
While The Crown is still very popular and beloved by critics (it was nominated for four Golden Globes for its fifth season, including one for Best Drama Series), its more recent seasons have been surrounded by controversy.
Some well-known people, such as famous British actress Dame Judi Dench, have asked the show to add a disclaimer to each episode stating that it is fiction. Bonham Carter spoke out on the issue in 2020, telling The Crown: The Official Podcast,
“I feel very strongly because I think we have a moral responsibility to say, hang on guys, it’s not a drama documentary, we’re making a drama. They are different entities.”
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