No professional experience required: ‘The Crown’ issues casting call for Prince William, Harry

Netflix has put out a casting call for two actors to portray Prince William and Prince Harry in season six of The Crown, reported The Independent. The royal drama’s casting associate Kate Bone posted a tweet on Thursday, March 17, saying that the production is seeking two actors “with a strong physical resemblance” to portray the brothers.

The casting call for the teenage princes suggests Season 6 — which is slated to be The Crown’s final season — will explore the events of the early 2000s, in the aftermath of their mother Princess Diana’s death. For Prince William, the production will consider actors aged between 16 years and 21 years and, for Prince Harry, actors aged between 16 years and 20 years.

According to the casting call, no previous professional acting experience is required and applicants should send a video of themselves talking about something they love doing.

Although the producers never reveal their storylines in advance, 2001 is when 19-year-old Prince William began his undergraduate course at the University of St Andrew’s in Scotland, which is where he would meet his wife-to-be Kate Middleton, reported Variety. It is also the year Prince Harry was allegedly caught “regularly smoking cannabis and drinking,” according to newspaper reports, which resulted in Prince Charles taking the young prince to a detox centre in a bid to scare him straight.

Both princes were also regulars on the London club scene during which time they were linked to dozens of sparkling young women. Meanwhile their father, Prince Charles, was attempting to warm the public to his former mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he went on to marry in 2005, while their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II famously stopped a criminal trial in 2002 involving Diana’s former butler, who was accused of stealing the princess’s possessions after her death

The fifth season of The Crown will land on Netflix this November, with a new cast taking over to portray the royal family through the 90s. Imelda Staunton will play Queen Elizabeth, alongside Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Dominic West as Prince Charles, Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana, Olivia Williams as Camilla Parker Bowles and Jonny Lee Miller as Prime Minister John Major.

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