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Richard Morgan Says ‘The Crown’ Was Never Really About the Royal Family, It’s About This · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Every fan of Netflix's royal family drama The Crown would
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Speaker 2: love it if creator and show runner Richard Morgan opted
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Speaker 2: in to do at least one more season, but he's
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Speaker 2: already expressed he's got no interest in continuing the show,
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Speaker 2: particularly since the passing of Queen Elizabeth in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: And while the nuts and bolts of the series seemed
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Speaker 2: to be shining a light on the UK's royal clan,
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Speaker 2: that's never how Richard himself saw it, saying at a
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Speaker 2: Netflix event, this is gonna sound mad, but I'm not
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Speaker 2: really that interested in the monarchy, mother's sons, wives, husbands.
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Speaker 2: That is really what the show's about. And of course
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Speaker 2: at the heart of the story was a woman, this
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Speaker 2: rather extraordinary woman, Queen Elizabeth, and for me, the minute
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Speaker 2: she passed, I didn't really want to do it anymore
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Speaker 2: because it's really about her. You can catch up on
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Speaker 2: every season of The Crown that's on Netflix that's direct
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Speaker 2: from Hollywood,