'The Crown' season five is set to premiere on November 5, 2022, on Netflix.
Egyptian-British actor Khalid Abdalla and Israeli actor Salim Daw will join the cast of the fifth season of the Netflix series The Crown.
Salim Daw will play the role of Mohamed Al Fayed and Khalid Abdalla of Dodi Fayed in the 10 episodes series.
Based on historical events, The Crown dramatizes the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign.
The fifth season of The Crown is scheduled to launch on Netflix in November, with Imelda Staunton portraying Queen Elizabeth, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Jonathan Pryce as the Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and Dominic West as the Prince of Wales.
The sixth instalment is expected to follow in late 2023 and will cover Queen Elizabeth II’s reign up to the early 2000s. The Crown is one of the most expensive shows ever made, with each season costing more than $100m to produce. It has been nominated for a total of 423 awards.
With the new decade in its stride, the Royal Family are presented with possibly their biggest challenge to date; as the public openly questions their role in ‘90s Britain.
This turbulent decade for the Royal Family has been documented and interpreted by journalists, biographers and historians. As Elizabeth Debicki, who takes on the role of Princess Diana, said: “That’s the amazing thing about playing these people at this time, because in the journey of The Crown so far out of all the seasons, this is the most visual content we have of the Royal Family. In the ‘90s everything had started to be filmed and also it was the birth of the 24-hour news cycle so there’s just this incredible amount of content that we have access to.”
With this being the final cast change, Dominic West (Prince Charles) explained: “I think people understand, because the cast has changed every two seasons, that this is not an imitation. This is an evoking of a character.”
Whilst Imelda Staunton (Queen Elizabeth II) hopes that, like her character, she has done her duty to the audience: “What has been nice, and I hope I don’t prove them wrong, is people saying, ‘I’m really looking forward to seeing her as the queen. So, let’s just hope that works out for them because I’ve done it. Nothing I can do about it now!”
