Suggestion provokes outrage as actor prepares to star in new series of The Crown
Actors and writers have criticised the Daily Telegraph columnist Charles Moore for claiming that Olivia Colman has “a distinctly leftwing face” in remarks which suggested she was unsuitable to portray the
Queen in the upcoming series of The Crown.
The suggestion provoked bemusement on
Twitter, with the comedian David Baddiel describing it as “idiot columnist rhetoric” and Little
Britain actor Matt Lucas saying it did not make “the remotest sense'”. Tracy Ann Oberman tweeted: “Jaw drop. To the floor.”