New The Crown Queen Imelda Staunton on the "fiction" controversy: "I’d like to allow the audience a bit of intelligence"

Variety

“I think that is up to producers and directors,” Staunton says of attaching a fiction label. “This isn’t verbatim; this isn’t taken from diaries. You’ve got to use your imagination, and I’d like to allow the audience a bit of intelligence. You can’t know that’s what Margaret and Elizabeth were talking about.”