He may have played a religious man in both Game of Thrones en The Two Breaks, but now Jonathan Pryce will plunge his toes into the water of royalty in the last two seasons of Netflix The crown. Pryce will play Prince Philip, opposite Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II and Lesley Manville’s Princess Margaret.
“I’m glad I’ll work with Netflix again,” Pryce said in a statement posted on The crowns official Instagram page. ‘The positive experience I had The Two Breaks has given me the confidence to record the horrific view of Prince Philip. To do so with Peter Morgan in the Company of Imelda and Lesley will be a joy. ‘
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Pryce, who played the High Sparrow in Thrones and Pope Francis in The Two Breaks, was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of the latter. He and his Thrones costars were also nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Drama Series in both 2016 and 2017.
Pryce is also not the only one Thrones alum to step into the role of Prince Philip.
Tobias Menzies, who played Edmure Tully in HBO fantasy, currently plays Philip.
In July, Netflix was updated The crown for a sixth season after showmaker Peter Morgan said the series would end with season 5. “In the beginning, I had imagined The crown “Six seasons are running, but now that we’ve started working on the stories for Season 5, it’s become clear to me that this is the perfect time and place to stop,” he said at first. BuzzFeed News in January.
Morgan told, however The New York Times in July, “When we started discussing the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story, we needed to go back to the original plan and do six seasons. . ” He explained, “To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us any closer to the present day – it will simply enable us to cover the same period in more detail.”
Fans are still waiting for the release of the fourth season, in which Olivia Colman plays Queen Elizabeth II. And now that we’ve Staunton, Manville, en Pryce waiting in the wings, we can not wait for the last two seasons to come.
