as the head of the monarchy -- taking over for seasons three and four as the royal family struggles to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing Britain.
When it came to taking on these real-life characters, O’Connor admits to ET that it was a “strange feeling” at first because “ultimately, we’re not mimics. We’re actors,” he says. But the trick was to be able to “let go of that and create something new and feel like it’s your own,” he continues, while Doherty adds that she never really let herself process that she was playing an actual person. “I had to just kind of forget that she was real in a way,” she says.
“We were shooting a scene in Wales and [this Welsh guy] came over, and he said, ‘Have you seen the film?’” the actor recalls. “I was like, ‘Yeah, I've seen it.’ He went, ‘Did you know Ben Kingsley -- they put tape behind his ears.’ I was like, ‘That's really fascinating.’ Then he went, ‘What did they do with yours?’ I had to kindly tell him that they were my real ears.” O’Connor was so horrified to learn that the man thought he was wearing fake ears to mimic the royal.
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