I think this film will be interesting to watch but it's like any other film of this nature - it's fiction shaped on the bones of fact and that gets slightly dangerous. It's like the objections to the Da Vinci Code - it's fiction presented as fact and so people may see this film and believe that is actually what the Queen said or did and I worry slightly that this could be a disaster. However, Helen Mirren recently gave an interview about playing the Queen and we know Dame Helen is a Royalist. She said she wouldn't do anything to hurt the Queen and I tend to trust Helen's acting capabilities. She was wonderful as Elizabeth I and I'm sure she'll be brilliant at Elizabeth II but I'll be interested to see just how it's presented.
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