'The Crown' Casts Prince William For The Final Two Seasons
The Crown has finally managed to cast the first of Charles and Diana's son, the elder heir Prince Harry. But the choice is not without controversy.
It is not easy to cast child actors. Let's make that clear from the start of this post. It was a modern-day miracle that Harry Potter ran the table with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, not to mention Robert Pattinson and Matthew Lewis. Game of Thrones landed Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams; however, most kid actors are unpredictable in how they'll turn out, and sometimes you get an Isaac Hempstead Wright.
This brings us to The Crown's most significant predicament for Seasons 5 and 6: Wills and Harry.
The two kids were in the awkwardest phase to cast during these years as young teens. Considering the material these actors be working with and their mother's difficult passing, you need someone who can handle it, or at least someone whose genetics suggest they have the talent passed to them to take it on. All this, and they have to look like both the kids in question. But also they have to look as if they could be the offspring of the actors who play their parents. It's a tough needle to thread. But in the case of The Crown, they found someone who checks most o these boxes: Senan West.
He looks like Wills. He also looks like his father, Dominic West, who just so happens to be playing Prince Charles in Seasons 5 and 6. Actor genes, keep it in the family, and everything is just a little inbred, royal style. Honestly, it's uncomfortably perfect.
