Charles Dance joins The Crown as Lord Mountbatten…as £10million-an-episode show splashes out more cash to make portrait of aristocrat look more like him Charles Dance has joined lavish sets of The Crown as Lord Louis Mountbatten They made an oil painting of Dance for one scene where the portrait is removed New third series focuses on Queen Elizabeth’s reign in the 1960s and 1970s
By Padraic Flanagan For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 23:39 GMT, 16 March 2019 | Updated: 23:39 GMT, 16 March 2019
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Hit TV drama The Crown is known for its lavish production values – with each episode costing up to £10million.
But even screen veteran Charles Dance may have raised an eyebrow at the lengths the show’s producers went to for his portrayal of Prince Charles’s great confidant, Lord Louis Mountbatten.
For as our photograph shows, the award-winning actor was painted in oils to lend authenticity to a scene where Mountbatten’s portrait is removed from a building in Whitehall.
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