“A job like playing Princess Diana in The Crown puts the rest of your life on pause”
“The thing that surprised me was the degree of difficulty in being part of the royal family and the isolation that can happen”
Having run the gauntlet of press interviews and thrown her arms around multiple fellow actor friends, Elizabeth Debicki slid into her seat at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in late February and kicked her shoes off under the table. She had already bagged a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice Award in January for her extraordinary performance as Princess Diana in celebrated Netflix series The Crown, but this was the SAG Awards, where there’s no supporting actress category for a television show, just a single award for a female actor in a drama series. Up against the likes of Sarah Snook (for Succession) and Jennifer Aniston (for Morning Wars), she figured there was no chance she’d win.
When Debicki’s name was called out, not only was she in shock but she had to try to retrieve those pesky shoes. Having kissed her boyfriend, Kristian Rasmussen, she tottered across the ballroom, shoes half on, half off, before abandoning them. “I just kicked them off and dashed up on stage and did a speech that
