The Crown’s Prince William actor Ed McVey gushes over ‘organic’ energy with co-star Meg Bellamy and reveals he used a movement coach to help him embody the royal

The Crown star Ed McVey has infused his ‘organic’ energy with co-star Meg Bellamy – ahead of the final season airing on Wednesday.

The actor, 21, who plays Prince William in the Netflix series, said he enjoyed shooting with Kate Middleton actress Meg, 20.

He told it too Cosmopolitan Britain how he used a movement coach to help him embody his role as King as he prepared for the role.

The star sweetly said of Meg, “The casting team saw an energy between us that was very organic and simple.

‘When we were filming the university scenes in St Andrews, we jumped into the North Sea with the rest of the cast, and it was one of those very special moments. It was freezing!’

On how he prepared to play the role of Prince William, he added: “He’s been documented from birth, so I’ve been able to watch him grow up and really study him.

‘He has a very specific voice: that Etonian thing from the 2000s, where people try to determine how much money they have.

‘I worked with a movement coach so I could embody his physicality and try to connect it with his psychology. How he feels in his mind affects how he behaves in his body, especially with what he was going through at the time.”

Meg and Ed – starring Kate Middleton and an adult Prince William – made a stylish duo on the red carpet at the screening in LA on Sunday evening.

In October, the first glimpse of footage from season six revealed how the Netflix series will recreate some notable royal moments from history.

And according to the photos released by the streaming giant, fans will see a number of historic moments recreated on screen, including Princess Diana’s final days before she died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.

A statement from the streaming giant revealed that the season will cover the period surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as Prince William and Kate Middleton’s meeting in the early 2000s.

It reads: ‘A relationship blossoms between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences.

‘Prince William is trying to integrate back into life at Eton after the death of his mother, because the monarchy must ride the wave of public opinion.

‘As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the future of the monarchy with the wedding of Charles and Camilla and the start of a new royal fairytale in William and Kate.’

One of the iconic royal moments that will be recreated in series six is ​​Prince Harry and Prince William’s summer holiday to Balmoral in August 1997, where they received the news that their mother had died.

Season six of the series picks up where season five left off, with Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, spending the summer apart for the first time as a now-divorced couple.

The two parents experience two very different holidays with their sons Prince William and Prince Harry.

According to executive producer Suzanne Mackie, “We are only at the beginning of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s story.

“From the moment she gets on that boat and (you start seeing) some of those iconic images of her on the yacht, you’re immediately taken into the whirlwind that was the press speculation surrounding that romance.”

Netflix recently released the first trailer for the upcoming series, which sees Imelda Staunton returning as Queen Elizabeth.

It also included snippets of footage from previous Queen actresses Claire Foy and Olivia Colman, in a nod to the series’ decades-long journey.

‘The crown is a symbol of penetration. It’s something you are, not what you do,” Foy said as a television flickered images of her character to start the trailer.

She first played the role of the monarch in seasons one and two of The Crown, playing a young Queen Elizabeth.

‘Some part of our natural self is always lost. We have all made sacrifices. It’s not a choice. It’s a duty,” Colman repeated then.

The video rolled to a framed photo of her in character as the Sovereign, which she played in seasons three and four

The clip then dramatically transitioned to Staunton in costume, quietly holding hands before stepping onto a Buckingham Palace-esque balcony to greet a cheering crowd.

“But what about the life I put aside? Wouldn’t I have put that aside?’ Staunton’s voice wondered then.

It was previously thought that the drama would last for five seasons, but then creator Peter Morgan decided to go back to his original plan of having six episodes of the show.

He told Deadline: ‘When we started discussing the storylines for Series 5, it quickly became clear that to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story, we had to go back to the original plan and create six seasons.

‘To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us closer to the present, it will simply allow us to describe the same period in more detail.’

The final part of the royal drama will air in two parts, with the first half of the series dropping on Netflix on November 16, with four episodes, and the second on December 14, with the final six episodes.

Read the full Ed McVey interview in the Dec/Jan issue of Cosmopolitan UK, on ​​sale now.