“But what I really wanted to do was find out about her really properly, not the image. We’ve all been there, we’ve all had that experience, and that would make it relatable,” he said. It’s someone in the company of members of the family that maybe they don’t want to be with. So I wanted to do a snapshot of a short period, and I thought, Christmas is good because it’s Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day - you’re three acts. I decided quite early on not to do a biopic. Instead, Knight decided to speak with people who knew Diana - and were present during that particular time in her life. Whereas, as we all know, everyday life, real life, is sort of chaos, and anything can happen and it’s a bit mad.” It always seems that everything was leading up to this moment and it was an inexorable march towards that. “Because I think what happens when historians give an account of someone’s life or achievements it always seems as if whatever happened was inevitable. “I didn’t read any of the books and I didn’t watch any of the movies or documentaries,” he said. To prepare to write the script, Knight didn’t do the traditional research one might expect.Īlso Read: That Time Dennis Hopper ‘Exploded’ on the Set of the Original 1993 Super Mario Bros. “Then I met Pablo, and he said, What do you think about doing something about Diana?” Knight said.
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The movie stars Kristen Stewart as Diana - a role that earned Stewart her first Golden Globe nomination this week. And it just made me wonder.”Ĭut to more than twenty years later when he was approached by director Pablo Larraín about making Spencer, the new movie about Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ separation over Christmas weekend in 1991. This was a direct, spontaneous, visceral connection. How did she have this effect on people who would normally - I mean, even when Churchill died, there was none of that.
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“They were wailing and sobbing and grieving, openly. I was up early one morning, and I was watching the funeral on TV, and the gates of the palace opened and the funeral cortege came, and I heard and saw British people do something they never normally do,” he said. But I suppose the biggest impact was when she died,” Knight told MovieMaker. But I mean, in Kensington and Westland at that time, she was around, she was visible to people, which I think people do sometimes forget. I also happen to know some people who knew her, so there was a slight connection, but nothing profound.
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“I mean, like most people, she existed in TV newsreels and footage on the television. But his curiosity was heightened on the day of her funeral in 1997. Spencer screenwriter Steven Knight was always curious about Princess Diana.