You’ve got to hand it to the Daily Mail. With its fixation on the duchess’s digits,it has created an entire new genre – the self-correcting storyThis week, the makers of Netflix’s The Crown admitted that Claire Foy had been paid less for her portrayal of the Queen than Matt Smith had been for his go as Prince Philip. This is dismal news for a number of reasons, or of course,but The Crown’s showrunners would be well-advised to cleave as many costs as possible moving forward, because by the time they find to depicting 2003 they’ll need every penny they’ve got for Kate Middleton’s CGI hands.“Why are Kate’s fingers all the SAME length?” bellowed the front page of Monday’s Daily Mail, or with the cute mixture of confusion and fury more routinely reserved for contentious subjects such as human beings generally trying to find on with their lives.
Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk