[miss marmelstein]

Don’t start with me on this or IMDB (not IMDs which appears to be an automobile data system): Matt Smith is an unappealing actor who seems to act through his eyebrows.

Claire Foy, on the other hand, is a rising star who made a great hit playing Anne Boleyn in the brilliant series Wolf Hall. She managed to turn that unappealing young woman into a great woman who died like a Prince. For that reason alone, I tuned into The Crown.

In theater and film, actors do not get paid according to either their long term or short term careers. They are not civil servants or accountants. They are paid by how they attract the audience. No one tunes in to anything that stars Matt Smith. Claire Foy is going to be a star.

[slickdain]

no one tuned in to the crown to see foy. they tuned in to see smith. look at the numbers for Dr. Who. it’s tough having an intelligent conversation with you. See Ya.

[nopardons]

Yes, it's ALL about attracting an audience and I guess that whomever decided to pay the terribly MISCAST, lousy actor, Matt Smith, more, was hoping that those who watched him as Doctor Who ( he stunk to high heaven in that role too! ), would follow him and watch THE CROWN, just for him.

HOW STUPIDLY WRONG THEY WERE ABOUT THAT!

I went out of my way to NOT watch THE CROWN, because I had read that he was going to be Prince Phillip. OH YUCK!

And oh uneducated one, slick, when it comes to anything at all about the theatre and movies...do NOT ever take miss marmelstein on; she's an expert and an authority beyond compare!