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It's a Friday morning in Spain when Elizabeth Debicki Zooms in from the Mallorca set of The Crown, where the Australian actor is currently filming season six as Diana, Princess of Wales. “I'm in a little flat with a very interesting clock on the wall,” she deadpans, referring to her basic holiday rental that's dwarfed by a frameless timepiece, comprised of numerals painted directly onto the white wall over her shoulder. “The first time I came here was doing The Night Manager, which I was horrified to count backwards and realise was seven years ago,” the 32-year-old continues, blue eyes sparkling behind oversized tortoiseshell frames. Lifting a wine glass, she adds, “This is a protein shake, in a wine glass, because we're out of normal glasses. Please don't judge.”
Right now, life for Debicki is somewhat topsy-turvy and time is clearly on her mind. “It's such a strange experiment, you come to beautiful places that people only come to have a lovely vacation, and you work really hard and funny hours. The first week you're like, ‘I can have a nice lunch and do my work. I'm totally capable.’ Then after the third week, you're like this nocturnal animal. You're so tired and you see people having dinner under your building and you're like, ‘Oh, yeah. Restaurant.’ It's such a weird experience.”
Production on season six is now back into overdrive after a respectful pause for the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. “We had just gotten to Barcelona, and I think we'd shot a day,” she recalls. “Of course, we paused, which was the right thing to do. It was very surreal, very sad and very sobering for everybody. I suddenly felt very homesick,” she shares, referring to her parents, and younger brother and sister, back in Melbourne. “I could tell it was really hard for people to be away from their families,” she continues, explaining that 95 per cent of s crew are English. “Grief, as we all know, sneaks up in the oddest of ways.