Peter Morgan, the man behind The Audience and The Queen told the Sunday Times Magazine that if he had been told he would writing a series of dramas about Queen Elizabeth II he would not have believed it.
The writer of award-winning Netflix drama The Crown has referred to the Queen as a woman of “limited intelligence” and claimed the royal family is a “deranged institution”.
Foy said she was “apoplectic with joy” when she found out Colman would be the next Queen.
“I think Claire Foy is an absolute genius – she’s an incredibly hard act to follow,” she said.