Princess Diana (left) and Elizabeth Debicki (right) reenacting Diana’s walk through an active landmine in ‘The Crown’.Photo:John Stillwell - PA Images/PA Images via Getty; Courtesy Netflix
John Stillwell - PA Images/PA Images via Getty; Courtesy Netflix
Elizabeth Debicki recreatedPrincess Diana’s trailblazingwalk through an active minefieldfor the sixth and final season ofThe Crown.
Photos from the Netflix series show the Australian actress, 33, dressed in the same attire as the Princess of Wales, who stepped out onto a landmine in Angola in 1997 to raise awareness for banning minefields across the globe.
Elizabeth Debicki reenacts Princess Diana’s walk through an active landmine in Angola in 1997 in season 6 of “The Crown.".Courtesy Netflix
Courtesy Netflix
Sporting the same hairstyle as the late princess, Debicki can be seen wearing a similar protective face covering and vest atop the same clothing and accessories as Diana.
“As soon as Princess Diana made her walk, it became a front of mind issue,” HALO USA’s executive director Chris Whatley told PEOPLE last year. “It took the convening power of Princess Diana to do that, to put it on the world stage to create that public momentum that allows for the political support, the rallying that continues to this day.”
Because of her efforts to show the dangerous effects of landmines, the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty — which calls for the prohibition of using, stockpiling, producing and transferring anti-personnel mines — was signed a month afterDiana’s untimely death on Aug. 13, 1997. 133 countries have since signed the treaty and an additional 31 have acceded.
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Princess Diana walks through an active landmine in Angola in 1997.John Stillwell - PA Images/PA Images via Getty
John Stillwell - PA Images/PA Images via Getty
The Crowncreator Peter Morgan recently addressed theDaily Mail’s reports that the show willportray the late Princess Diana as a “ghost”in the upcoming installment, tellingVariety, “I never imagined it as Diana’s ‘ghost’ in the traditional sense.”
“It was her continuing to live vividly in the minds of those she has left behind,” Morgan, 60, continued. “Diana was unique, and I suppose that’s what inspired me to find a unique way of representing her. She deserved special treatment narratively.”
“Oh, God, we were never going to show the crash. Never,” he toldVariety.
Morgansaidhe was “prepared to write the show without Diana” if they couldn’t find the rightactress to play the princess.
He explained toVariety, “I think I would’ve been paralyzed writing for someone that I didn’t believe could do it, so I would’ve tried to reconfigure the whole show almost without Diana, which seems now impossible, but that only because I did feel it was impossible because of who we got.”
source: people.com
