Actor Matt Smith has revealed his hilarious encounter with Prince Harry after the release of the movie ‘The Crown’.
Smith played Prince Philip in the first two seasons of the hit Netflix series and received an Emmy nomination for his performance on the show.
Smith recalled bumping into the Duke of Sussex at a polo match a few years ago and revealed what Prince Harry said to him.
“He was like, ‘Are you okay, grandpa?'” Smith told the BBC.
In January 2023, Prince Harry admitted to watching The Crown and said: We even do a “fact check” on the show. royal account.
during his appearance “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Meghan Markle’s husband spoke about the controversial drama when asked if he had “binged” anything on TV recently.
Colbert asked if “The Crown” was one of those shows, and said Prince Harry “must have watched it to some degree,” given that it’s all about family.
“Yes, I’ve seen some of ‘The Crown,'” he revealed, and Colbert asked if he had seen recent episodes.
“The old and the newer,” Harry clarified.
The fugitive royal was then asked if he did any “fact checking” while watching the show, prompting Prince Harry’s animated response, which drew laughs from the audience.
“Yes, it actually is,” the father of two revealed. “By the way, this is another reason why it’s so important that history is correct.”
Prince Harry first admitted he dabbled in the hit Netflix show in February 2021 during a wide-ranging interview with former Late Late Show host James Corden.
Harry told Corden that he preferred watching the show to reading headlines about him and his wife.
“It’s not pretending to be news. It’s fiction, but it’s loosely based on truth.” he said about the show. “This gives you a rough idea of what the pressure of putting duty and service above family and everything else is like, and what can come from that. ”
“I feel much more comfortable watching ‘The Crown’ than watching stories written about my family, my wife, myself,” he continued.
“Obviously this is fiction, take it as you like, but it’s being reported as fact because it’s supposed to be news. There’s a real problem with that.”
