Peter Morgan on Writing The Crown, Meeting Tony Blair

Peter Morgan is a playwright, screenwriter and TV sequence creator and showrunner who has been described by The Guardian as “Britain’s main modern display dramatist,” and about whom the publication wrote, “There isn’t any one who works fairly like him. Truly, there could be no one who has labored fairly like him in British drama since Shakespeare. He focuses on taking the lives of public figures, mingling the occasions and phrases of their lives together with his personal imaginings, and recasting it as drama that’s as near documentary as potential with out truly being a docudrama.”

Morgan wrote the theatrical productions Frost/Nixon, which was on the West Finish in 2006 and Broadway in 2007; The Viewers, which was on the West Finish in 2013 and Broadway in 2015; and Patriots, which was on the West Finish in 2023 and Broadway in 2024. He was additionally the screenwriter of TV movies together with 2003’s The Deal, 2006’s Longford and 2010’s The Particular Relationship and theatrical movies together with 2006’s The Queen and The Final King of Scotland, 2008’s Frost/Nixon, 2009’s The Damned United, 2010’s Hereafter and 2013’s Rush.

Most famously, he created, show-ran and wrote or co-wrote all 60 episodes that comprised the six-season landmark Netflix drama sequence The Crown. That present, which unspooled between 2016 and 2024, has been described by The Los Angeles Instances as “maybe the ultimate providing of TV’s Golden Age” and by The New York Instances as “one of the crucial watched, argued over and influential creations in latest tv historical past.” It was awarded 10 Emmys for its previous 5 season and is now, for its sixth and last season, nominated for 18 Emmys, together with greatest drama sequence and greatest writing for a drama sequence.

Morgan personally is the winner of 5 BAFTA Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards; has additionally been nominated for 2 Academy Awards, one Tony Award and one Olivier Award; and was, in 2015, named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for “companies to drama” — an honor conferred upon him by none aside from then-Prince Charles — and, in 2017, awarded a British Movie Institute Fellowship.

Over the course of this episode, the 61-year-old mirrored on how he was formed by rising up the kid of immigrants and shedding his father when he was simply 9; the unintentional method by which he wound up a author; how he started utilizing historic folks and occasions as springing-off factors for imagined exchanges involving highly effective folks — together with presidents, prime ministers and a queen; what he hopes the legacy of The Crown shall be; plus far more.