Matt Smith recalls Prince Harry calling him ‘grandad’ after role in The Crown

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?