{"id":1637026,"date":"2022-09-08T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637026"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:39:21","slug":"from-the-crown-to-the-simpsons-hollywood-embraced-and-spoofed-queen-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-the-crown-to-the-simpsons-hollywood-embraced-and-spoofed-queen-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018The Crown\u2019 to \u2018The Simpsons,\u2019 Hollywood embraced \u2013 and spoofed \u2013 Queen Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrom-the-crown-to-the-simpsons-hollywood-embraced-and-spoofed-queen-elizabeth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Lisa Richwine<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) \u2013     Britain\u2019s Queen Elizabeth fascinated Hollywood writers and actors during her seven-decade reign and was portrayed on screen in award-winning dramas, animation and even U.S. comedy sketch show \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The monarch, who died on Thursday at age 96, was the central figure of Netflix Inc\u2019s Emmy-winning television series \u201cThe Crown.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Claire Foy won two Emmys and a Golden Globe for playing Elizabeth as a young woman who suddenly became queen at age 27. Olivia Colman took on the role in later seasons, and Imelda Staunton will play her in the fifth installment, which is set to debut in November.<\/p>\n<p>When Foy won the Golden Globe in 2017, she thanked several \u201cextraordinary women,\u201d including Queen Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has been at the center of the world for the past 63 years, and I think the world could do with a few more women at the center of it, if you ask me,\u201d Foy said.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow British actress Helen Mirren took home an Oscar for playing Elizabeth in 2006 film \u201cThe Queen,\u201d which focused on the monarch\u2019s response to the unexpected death of Princess Diana. <\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth made a compelling subject because she played a role in major world events and because her life story had a \u201cvery human element,\u201d said People magazine editor-in-chief Wendy Naugle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can all see the foibles in our own families,\u201d Naugle said. \u201cWe can understand what it\u2019s like when you have some tensions and riffs, and you put on top of that the layer of glamour and royalty and duty, and it\u2019s a fascinating story.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Not all of the queen\u2019s screen time has come in serious dramas. Animated comedy \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d has worked her into several episodes over its 33 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Redgrave voiced Queen Elizabeth in one of Pixar\u2019s \u201cCars\u201d movies when the monarch \u2013 appearing as a luxury car with a crown \u2013 presided over a race in London. <\/p>\n<p>And comedian Fred Armisen spoofed the queen as a cantankerous monarch in several skits on \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d including one in which the fictitious queen tells the real-life Elton John not to play his \u201ccrap\u201d songs at a royal wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Naugle said she expects more portrayals of Queen Elizabeth on the big and small screen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much ground to cover,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of that world that people don\u2019t see. And so I think when people feel like they can go inside the walls of the palace, we\u2019re enraptured and we want to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Lisa Richwine, Editing by Rosalba O\u2019Brien)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2746769\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8714G-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8714G-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2746772\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8714D-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8714D-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) \u2013 Britain\u2019s Queen Elizabeth fascinated Hollywood writers and actors during her seven-decade reign and was portrayed on screen in award-winning dramas, animation and even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}