The Crown's Emma Corrin is co-writing a new film
Emma Corrin's next project may be behind the screen rather than in front of it. The actress, who became a star with her portrayal of the late Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown, is currently co-writing a film with a friend.
She follows in the footsteps of household names such as Reese Witherspoon and Angelina Jolie who have bought the rights to interesting books in order to create more nuanced film roles for women.
“Me and my friend Abby are co-writing a film based on an article I bought the rights to earlier this year," Corrin told The Observer. "I met a producer at a festival last year, and she said: 'You will find as you get older that there might not be parts; there aren’t always roles for women out there that are any good'.”
Although she was "sad" to only play Diana for one series (Elizabeth Debicki has been cast as an older version of the royal for series five), she is also "quite pleased to move on". Already, she has been inundated with scripts where she is up against big stars like Emma Stone.
"The industry loves to pigeonhole," she says. "The sooner I can move away from doing posh English, the better, even though that’s what I am. I want to do a gritty, independent film, maybe in Scotland or something. I’ll have an outrageous accent, and flowing red hair.”
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