The Crown’s Lesley Manville on Reconsidering Princess Margaret

“I hadn’t thought of myself as a Margaret for a nanosecond,” Lesley Manville says. But that all changed when the actress met Peter Morgan, the creator of The Crown, for tea. “It happened very out of the blue,” Manville says. “My agent called me and said, ‘Peter is inviting you to his house to talk about playing…’ and I thought, what is she going to say.” But a meeting with Morgan was all it took to convince Manville it was the right decision. “I was incredibly excited after that,” she says, “and for weeks after, I’d wake up in the… Read Full Article