Netflix has added a disclaimer to the brand new trailer for The Crown Season 5 to remind viewers that the present is a piece of fiction within the wake of backlash and criticisms of the present by well-known folks like Judi Dench.
The outline for The Crown’s latest trailer states that the present is “impressed by actual occasions” however can also be a “fictional dramatization” about Queen Elizabeth II and the “political and private occasions that formed her reign.” The present’s earlier trailers didn’t include such a disclaimer, Deadline experiences.
Press supplies and the Netflix touchdown web page for The Crown additionally describe the present as being “fictionalized.”
The Crown Season 5 takes place within the ’90s when the royal household faces “what could also be their greatest problem but: proving their continued relevance in ’90s Britain,” reads a line from the present’s description. Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and Charles (Dominic West) seem in starring roles this season.
Dame Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love, Skyfall) lately lashed out at The Crown, calling it an “inaccurate and hurtful account of historical past.” She urged Netflix so as to add a disclaimer earlier than every episode to remind folks that the present is a piece of fiction, however Netflix has not carried out this and has not introduced plans to.
Dench went on to jot down, “Certainly, the nearer the drama involves our current occasions, the extra freely it appears prepared to blur the traces between historic accuracy and crude sensationalism.”
The Crown Season 5 debuts November 9 on Netflix.
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