Jack Farthing mentions working with Kristen on 'Spencer' with the Insider

In "Spencer," Farthing stars opposite Kristen Stewart's Diana as Charles, Prince of Wales, and the film is a much trickier and more ambitious take on the royal couple's doomed relationship than audiences might have seen before. The film is set over the course of a winter break at the Queen's Sandringham estate and charts the deterioration of their marriage and Diana's mental health with appearances from royal ghosts and violent dream sequences. Farthing — who is best known for his work on the TV show "Poldark" — told Insider he was attracted to the role because of what he saw as the "terror" in portraying the life of living royal.

"It's obviously a very scary overwhelming idea, taking on someone like that. Trying to find your own truth in a character that everyone knows so well and is so visible and so recorded and so impersonated," he said.

"I remember Pablo talking about how much he wanted me to feel at home in these big rooms and make them my own and make them feel like I'd lived in them and that's that was a weird process of trying to like go into these rooms beforehand and try and to own the air in them. It's just very weird and difficult."

Kristen Stewart's British accent was complete when she arrived on set, Farthing said.

Thanks to a series of pulsating trailers, "Spencer" has created a lot of buzz on social media and specifically around the potential quality of the American Kristen Stewart's British accent. In a review of the film following its premiere at the Venice film festival, Insider said Stewart is a "perfect" Diana and her British accent was "pinpoint."

When asked whether he had to give Stewart any pointers on how to execute a convincing British accent, Farthing said the former "Twilight" star and California native had her accent nailed before she turned up to set.

"I had nothing to give," Farthing told Insider. "She is incredible. She arrived with everything. She arrived just cooking. She's an amazing person to work with, to work opposite, to kind of play with on set. My first day on set was our big scene over that billiard room table and it was intense. It was really intense and scary. We were just on immediately." 

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