1. Kristen Stewart transforms into Princess Diana in new photo
Two months after The Crown's fourth season, our first look at another major Princess Diana portrayal has arrived. Kristen Stewart will play the Princess of Wales in the upcoming film Spencer, and the first still from the movie was released Wednesday. The film takes place around Christmas and follows Diana when she "decided her marriage to Prince Charles wasn't working, and that she needed to veer from a path that put her in line to one day be queen," Deadline reported. Pablo Larraín, who directed Natalie Portman in the Oscar-nominated Jackie Kennedy film Jackie, is directing Spencer, while Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight wrote the screenplay. Though it's hard to not look at Kristen Stewart and go "that's Kristen Stewart," credit where it's due: she's perfected the side-eye. See the photo here.
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