How The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki & Dominic West Get Inspired

“I think that’s what it gets a lot of criticism for. How can you know what they talk about in their private lives?” the 52-year-old said. “The obvious answer is we don’t, but we have an incredible writer, a dramatist, who imagines based on exhaustive research, and that’s really part of the fascination of the show.”

Debicki, meanwhile, is grateful that The Crown has lots of historical material to draw inspiration from.

“That’s the amazing thing about playing these people at this time, because in the journey of The Crown so far out of all the seasons, this is the most visual content we have of the Royal Family,” she said. “In the ‘90s everything had started to be filmed and also it was the birth of the 24-hour news cycle so there’s just this incredible amount of content that we have access to.”