For Minnie Driver, stepping into character as Queen Elizabeth I hardly felt just like the royal remedy.
The Serpent Queen actress revealed that she needed to tape ice packs to her thighs underneath her robes whereas filming season 2 of the Starz interval drama in France’s Loire Valley throughout a heatwave.
“I completely did,” Driver advised the Boston Herald. “It was 100 degrees-plus. Our costumes had been lined with neoprene, they usually weighed 60 kilos. So it was intense, it was extremely scorching. Taping ice packs, truly, was the one manner of not fainting — and also you needed to hold consuming sufficient water.”
She famous, “It means that you’ve got extraordinary focus. That’s a part of being an actor.”
Driver mentioned the shoot was “very busy” and “uncomfortable for everyone,” including: “But it surely’s humorous — you simply get on with one thing when there isn’t actually a selection.”
“I discover it unbelievable that all of us did that. However we did,” Driver continued. “I misplaced 10 kilos by the point I completed. My corsets weren’t actually holding me in anymore.”
Serpent Queen tells the story of Catherine de Medici (Samantha Morton) and the way she turned one of the highly effective and longest-serving guidelines in French historical past.
In March, Driver was forged because the notorious “Virgin Queen” who goes toe-to-toe with Catherine within the upcoming season, premiering July 12 on Starz. She famous to the Herald that the 2 “by no means truly met in actual life.”
“They wrote to one another,” mentioned Driver. “They’d an enormous correspondence by means of their lives. However that is an imagined assembly of two ladies jostling for political energy.”
