Meg Bellamy. Samir Hussein/WireImage
The Crown actress Meg Bellamy is opening up about the toll of enjoying Princess Kate Middleton.
Bellamy, 21, performed a young model of Kate in the sixth and ultimate season of the Netflix drama previous year as the display depicted the early romance involving Prince William (performed by Ed McVey) and his upcoming wife at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
“I’d experienced this extended working day of push, it experienced absent properly, then I went on my cell phone and there was all this damaging things about my physique on-line,” Bellamy reported in an interview with the U.K. Mail on Sunday’s You journal printed on Sunday, June 23.
The actress mentioned that the normal gist of the indicate reviews was, “You’re as well excess fat to participate in Kate.”
“That was a glimpse into currently being a girl in this market. I believed, ‘OK, that’s a sign to distance oneself due to the fact it does not mean just about anything,’” Bellamy spelled out.
“You can not pay attention to that sort of things,” she added, noting that the trolling generally came from “men termed Gary who are holding a fish in their profile photograph.”
“I’ve experienced so quite a few amazing things take place to me. They are the losers for saying that. I’m residing my best life in excess of listed here,” the actress stated.
Meg Bellamy as Kate Middleton and Ed McVey as Prince William. Justin Downing
Ahead of landing the role of Kate in The Crown, Bellamy experienced no earlier tv practical experience and was participating in a snake in an attraction at the theme park Legoland in the U.K.
To put together for the position, Bellamy viewed “hours” of footage of Kate, in accordance to You magazine.
‘I used so considerably time ‘with’ her. You get this unusual parasocial relationship. She’s so gracious and fantastic and self-certain. I will normally be fond of Kate,” said Bellamy.
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“I so experience for her and for the family members,” stated Bellamy.
