Why the Crown’s Meg Bellamy was nervous to film this Will and Kate scene
The scene, which was filled with 'cultural significance', was nerve-wracking for Meg Bellamy. Photo / Instagram, @thecrownnetflix
The Crown star Meg Bellamy was “nervous” to film the scene where Kate Middleton met Prince William.
The 21-year-old actress stars as Catherine, Princess of Wales, in the hit Netflix series. She admitted that it was daunting filming the scene during which a young Kate catches the eye of her future husband Prince William, now 40, as a student whilst appearing in a fashion show because it held a lot of “historical significance” in that her character went on to become the future Queen.
She told E! News: “It was so exciting to wear an iconic outfit that I was aware of. And preparing for the dress was really interesting, with the fittings, so many intricacies and different layers of mesh and ribbons. I was nervous a bit before because it’s a scene that I felt had a lot of gravitas in terms of historical significance.
“But the day of, the director [Erik Richter Strand] made us so comfortable and it was just loads of fun. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”
Before landing the role of a young Kate in The Crown, newcomer Bellamy was working at Legoland and was trying to make it in acting on her own without an agent.
She told the Telegraph newspaper: “I had left school and I was working at Legoland, which was the best job ever. I didn’t have an agent at the time so I was just doing everything that I could on my own.
“Then in April last year, the opportunity [for The Crown] popped up on my Twitter, and at the same time my neighbour sent it to me and told me that I should go for it. She’d just seen it and she thought that I looked like Kate.
“In the first round of auditions you had to say something about yourself and tell them your height. I told them I was a red brick at Legoland – that was my fun fact.”