The Viewis weighing in onThe Crown’s disclaimer debate.
In response, Behar began,“This dame disagrees with Dame Judi Dench because they tell you at the top that it is not a documentary, and if you have a brain, you can figure out that the writers have used history.”
“If it’s documented history, then we can believe it, but we’re not going to believe a conversation that’s going on in the bedroom ofQueen ElizabethandPrince Philip. Nobody was there but the two of them, so you don’t believe that part,” the cohost continued, as the audience laughed. “But the historical part, you believe.”
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Whoopi Goldbergreplied, “So they plan to introduce an affair, supposedly, thatPrince Philiphad, that he never had. That’s what she’s talking about.”
“He had several affairs, apparently, but not this one,” said Behar, 80.
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Jumping in,Sunny Hostinrevealed that Behar got her to watchThe Crown(which Behar said was “the best”) and shared why she agreed with Dench that Netflix was obligated to add disclaimers.
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“One of the pushbacks that they’re getting is aboutPrincess Diana’s death. They’re going to film it, not going to show it, what really happened I think we all remember how tragic that was, and history is ugly sometimes, and I don’t think there’s a problem showing it,” the cohost, 54, said.
Hostin proceeded to quote somethingPrince HarrytoldOprah Winfreyduring his March 2021 CBS interview with his wife,Meghan Markle. Hostin recalled that the prince said, “‘History was repeating itself. My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone that wasn’t white and now look what happened.’ "
“He feared it was going to happen again,” Hostin said of the scrutiny. “I think that storyline, in particular, that people are saying, ‘You can’t show her death,’ is almost bastardizing history. It’s something we should never forget happened to Princess Diana.”
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“I think also what happens is, on one side, we say, ‘Well, there’s family members.’ We talked about it with[Jeffrey] Dahmer,” Goldberg interjected. “Should they have talked to the family members? But they didn’t talk to the family members, because they know the family members are going to say, ‘Please don’t do that.’ "
“When you make historical fiction, you have to be careful. You have to pay attention to what you’re doing,” the EGOT winner concluded.
Netflixdropped the trailerfor the highly anticipated fifth season ofThe CrownThursday. The royal drama’s new season hits queues on Nov. 9.
source: people.com
