KNOW anyone who looks like a young Prince Harry? Netflix has put out a last-minute call for a star to play Harry in Season 6 of The Crown, set from the late Nineties.
There isn’t much time: filming starts in November, and there is a two-week deadline for entrants, who should send a short video doing “something they love” by email. The actors for William and Kate were announced earlier this month.
No acting experience is needed, with stars promised “a great deal of support”. The call-out sheet, sent out in the last week by company Robert Sterne, asks for entrants aged 16 to 20. In that period, Harry got in some scrapes, once wearing Nazi fancy dress.
The advert in full reads: “Robert Sterne, Casting Director of the Netflix series THE CROWN, is searching for an exceptional young actor to play Prince Harry in the next series.
“It is a significant roles in this award winning drama and we are looking for a strong physical resemblance... Shooting will commence November 2022 in the UK.
“No previous professional acting experice is required. WE are very experienced in providing a great deal of support for the young actors and their families through what they find is a uniquely rewarding creating process”.
Potential Harry’s are also asked to give their height, as well as get permission from a parent if they are under 18.
Season 5, covering the Nineties and with Imelda Staunton as the Queen and Dominic West as Prince Charles, is out in November. Some had wondered if the show would delay following the death of the Queen, but it only paused filming for a day.
Some have said that the new King Charles is not looking forward to the release, as it covers the period of his divorce with wife Diana. Queen Elizabeth called 1992 her “annus horribilis”.
Mayors jostle for top spot up North
WITH Labour up in the polls, big beasts jostled cheerfully at conference parties last night. But Manchester mayor Andy Burnham couldn’t join them, telling us he had to “get the train about half 9” as the service is bad. At an Irish Society bash, Sadiq Khan joked that with Burnham gone he could call Liverpool “the greatest city in the North West”. Khan called himself the most “pro-Irish” mayor but as a non-drinking Muslim, he asked for no pictures with the whisky sponsor: “My mum is on social media,” he joked.
Stars at Labour conference
It’s not quite Britpop in Number 10 but Labour has brought some star power to its Liverpool conference.
We saw a serious-looking Hugh Grant marching around with a briefcase, while presenter and author Richard Osman was seen picking up his security pass. Former England footballer Gary Neville took to the main stage with Keir Starmer while, elsewhere, we spoke to former BBC heavyweight Andrew Marr who has pulled no punches over Liz Truss’s tax cuts in his current job at LBC.
Marr told us he is glad to be free of the Beeb’s strict impartiality rules. “I found by the end I was self-censoring not just on air but with friends and family,” Marr said, and he was “biting my tongue so hard there was hardly any tongue left”. He added: “I’m just in a much happier place, where I can be myself.”
Hats off at the Twenty Two
SINGER Erykah Badu surely won best hat at the Burberry fashion aftershow party at The Twenty Two hotel last night. Also there were musicians Fireboy DML and the Bloom Twins, and model Bella Hadid. Earlier at the show in a Bermondsey warehouse, models including Karen Elson applauded Burberry boss Riccardo Tisci for his designs. Model Ella Richards wore blue. Elsewhere, actors Steve Coogan and Sally Hawkins went to the Soho premiere of new film The Lost King, about the discovery of the remains of Richard III.
