Matt Smith reveals Prince Harry called him 'grandad' after role in The CrownSource: Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
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00:00 Is it true Prince Harry called you Grandpa?
00:01 Yeah, it is, yeah, yeah.
00:03 He was like, "All right, Grandad." I was like, "All right, mate."
00:05 I told my Grandad that I was... I got that part.
00:08 I went, "Bloody hell, you're not playing that, Virk."
00:10 I couldn't bear him. My Grandad couldn't bear him.
00:13 He was very... He wasn't very into the royal family.
00:16 But I just loved him.
00:17 I got all of the research I did, I thought,
00:20 "What an extraordinary, forward-thinking,
00:22 "deeply funny, irascible, brilliant man he was."
00:29 Is it true Prince Harry called you Grandpa?
00:31 Yeah, it is, yeah, yeah.
00:32 He was like, "All right, Grandad." I was like, "All right, mate."
00:35 And is it true that the late Queen used to watch The Crown,
00:37 you heard, on a projector in Buckingham Palace?
00:39 I heard this. This might be an old wives' tale,
00:41 but I heard she watched it with a member.
00:43 But again, see, this is the problem, isn't it?
00:45 Because it generates a sort of level of gossip around them
00:47 that they probably don't want.
00:48 But by the same notion, without...
00:50 without sort of being too presumptuous about it,
00:54 has it done them... You know, has there been some...
00:58 Has it created a degree of intrigue about them as well,
01:01 that perhaps... You know, has it modernised them in a way?
01:04 Has it helped people empathise?