Kristen Stewart channels Princess Diana’s turmoil on ‘Spencer’ poster

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Written by Megan C. Hills, CNN

A poster recently unveiled for Princess Diana’s upcoming biopic, “Spencer,” hints at the royal backstage anguish posed by director Pablo Larrain and lead actress Kristen Stewart.

The promotional image, released Wednesday by distributor Neon, shows the “Twilight” star as Diana in a voluminous cream dress with her back turned towards the camera.

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The new “Spencer” poster depicting Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana. Credit: Neon courtesy

The biopic, which premieres at the Venice Film Festival the month before its premiere in November, tells of the Christmas holidays taken at the Sandringham estate of the royal family in 1991.

With Diana’s marriage to Prince Charles “long cold”, the film spans three days of “eating and drinking, shooting and hunting” amid “rumors of affairs and divorce,” according to a synopsis official.

Princess Diana is known to have spent Christmas in Sandringham with other members of the royal family in 1991, although Neon described the film as an “imagination of what could have happened”.

With a screenplay by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight, the biopic sees Jack Farthing playing Prince Charles. Other stars are Sean Harris, Oscar-nominated Sally Hawkins and Timothy Spall.

Related: A look back at the life of Princess Diana in fashion

The dress featured on the poster seems to refer to several of Princess Diana’s best known dresses. The long train evokes her 1981 wedding dress, designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, although the bright details and silhouette may also have been inspired by the famous “Diaghilev” dress (also designed by the Emanuels) that led to the 1987 James Bond film “The Living Daylights.”
Another image of Stewart as Princess Diana was released earlier this year. Almost unrecognizable by the deceased royal’s blonde feather hairstyle, Stewart appears in a bright red coat, a black hat with a mesh veil and a black pussybow blouse, an apparent recreation of the dress Diana wore to church service in Sandringham on 1993.
An image published earlier this year that revealed the transformation of Kristen Stewart into Princess Diana.

An image published earlier this year that revealed the transformation of Kristen Stewart into Princess Diana. Credit: Neon

Stewart is the latest in a long line of actors to play the princess, with Naomi Watts taking on the role of the 2013 biopic, “Diana.” Emma Corrin also had a recent twist as Diana in the fourth season of “The Crown.” The popular Netflix series, which covers a different time period each season, has since launched Elizabeth Debicki as a royal in recent years.

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