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A VERY NOBLE ENDEAVOUR
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By its fourth series, the enormous production behind The Crown was a well oiled machine, but then Covid happened
It takes gargantuan effort by a huge team to ensure The Crown maintains its top-class, high-end production values season after season. Even so, even more under-the-water paddling than usual was needed by this royal swan when COVID-19 collided with series four’s final weeks of filming. Covering the arrival of Princess Diana and
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the Thatcher years – a truly blockbuster era – the season posed the production team an array of potential problems. But thanks to a team and close collaborative culture built over the past six years, says Producer Michael Casey, the production operation successfully weathered the storms. “The life and soul of The Crown is definitely
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Peter Morgan – everything originates with him. But beyond that is an army, and one of its greatest strengths is how strong and close it is,” he explains. “Our production team has been consistent – pretty much the same since the beginning,
though of course as people move up new people come in. Over the time we’ve all worked together, people have become steeped in the history of it and how to do things and make things work. And with that, they have grown in confidence.” This is especially important for the actors,
who tend to stay just one or two seasons, as it ensures they enter a space with people around them to guide them into things comfortably and quickly. Unsurprisingly, the logistics are
eye-watering.
THERE ARE DAYS WHEN WE HAVE 700 PEOPLE AT WORK ON A SINGLE DAY
“The level of endeavour is enormous.
Yesterday, for example, we had 200 extras down in Greenwich, and they’d been in make-up since 5am,” Casey continues.
London’s iconic 3 Mills Studios is a unique island of creativity.
Over the last three decades 3 Mills Studios has provided a stage for many world-class TV drama series, whether that be our current returning TV series The Great (MRC Television) starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, filming across the most grandly gilded palace sets, or Sky Atlantic’s The Third Day (as pictured right, from Sky Studios and HBO) starring Jude Law and Naomie Harris which has garnered acclaim across this year’s Televisual awards.
As a dry-hire studio facility, our productions have ultimate flexibility to own the stage without any restrictions to their creativity. 3 Mills Studios is also one of the most accessible studios in the UK with excellent
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