The series’ final season began filming in July 2021 with Debicki and Dominic West playing the estranged couple in the 1990s. The Great Gatsby actress previously called her role as the late royal a “true privilege and honor” via a statement on her casting in August 2020. The fourth season, which swept the 2021 Emmy Awards days before Abdalla’s casting was announced, followed the love triangle between Prince Charles ( Josh O’Connor), Diana (Corrin) and Duchess Camilla ( Emerald Fennell). Their brief relationship causes a media frenzy before the tragic Paris car crash, in which they both died, a few months later. The real-life couple was first linked in the summer of 1997. The casting of Dodi and Mohamed seemingly indicates that the fifth season will capture the final years of Diana’s life ahead of her and Dodi’s 1997 deaths. Mohamed was notably the former owner of Harrods, and his son was a film producer and heir.
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The series also announced that September that Salim Daw would join the cast as the Egyptian-born heir’s father, Mohamed Al-Fayed.
It’s a pleasure & honour to be joining everyone few details about season 5 of the Emmy-winning series have been confirmed, Abdalla will act opposite Elizabeth Debicki, who will take over the role of Diana from Emma Corrin.
“Sharp intake of breath, for so much to discover,” the British actor tweeted at the time. The Kite Runner actor noted his excitement to join the Netflix series via social media after the announcement, which came after Variety broke the news in September 2021. Khalid Abdalla was cast as the late Princess Diana’s boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, on the forthcoming fifth and final season of The Crown. The years following Diana's death in 1997 were also a low-point for the family: as well as dealing with her two grieving grandsons, the Queen's popularity reached its lowest depths amid criticism of how she handled Diana's death.Getting regal. In 1995 Diana famously gave a controversial interview to BBC's Martin Bashir about her relationship with Charles, in which she uttered the immortal line that there were "three people" in her marriage, referring to Charles's mistress (now his wife) Camilla Parker-Bowles. The Crown season 4 (pictured) ended in the late 1980s while Season 5 will follow the royal family through the 1990s (Netflix) Season 5 will follow the royal family through the 1990s, no doubt including the Queen's so-called "annus horribilis" in 1992, during which three of her four children separated from their partners and Windsor Castle caught fire. Lesley Manville ( Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ) will play Charles's aunt Princess Margaret and Jonny Lee Miller ( Elementary ) stars as Prime Minister John Major. Imelda Staunton ( Harry Potter ) will portray Charles's mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Jonathan Pryce ( The Two Popes ) his father, Prince Philip. Actress Imelda Staunton will play the Queen in the last two seasons of The Crown (Instagram: The Crown)
Prince Charles will be played by Dominic West ( The Affair ) in the fifth and sixth seasons, taking over from Josh O'Connor, who on Sunday won an Emmy for his portrayal of the philandering royal. While Debicki will have plenty of material to draw on given Diana was, at the time, the world's most photographed woman, Abdalla, who has starred in Paul Greengrass's United 93 and Green Zone, is not so lucky: Dodi reportedly never gave a single interview during his lifetime.ĭebicki takes over the role from Emma Corrin, who played a young Diana in Season 4, which followed the princess's first meeting Charles through to the implosion of their marriage shortly after the birth of Prince William. Dominic West will play Prince Charles in series, taking over from Josh O'Connor (Netflix)