'You're too fat to play Kate': The Crown star Meg Bellamy reveals her torment by online trolls and 'men called Gary holding a fish' Last year she was playing a toy brick when she was picked to portray Kate Middleton in The Crown. Now she’s on stage, signed to an A-list agent and pondering her next move. MEG BELLAMY, 21, tells Maddy Fletcher what she’s learnt from such a dazzling debut role By Maddy Fletcher For You Magazine Published: 07:01 EDT, 22 June 2024 | Updated: 07:01 EDT, 22 June 2024 e-mail View comments Last December, Meg Bellamy went to Los Angeles for the first time.
The 21-year-old actress was doing press for season six of The Crown , in which she starred as Kate Middleton . At home in the UK, Meg had been renting a flat in Berkshire; in Hollywood, she was staying in a swish hotel and attending the season premiere. ‘I was in the pool in this incredible hotel, looking out to LA.
It was like: “What is my life?!”’ When I meet Meg this May, it’s in a rather less glamorous setting – a small studio in South London where she is rehearsing a play. There are no PRs or agents to meet me. The door to the studio is open so I wander in, wondering briefly if I have got lost until I see Meg sitting cross-legged on a sofa, wearing baggy trousers and a baggier T-shirt, drinking a cup of tea and chatting to two castmates.
She looks, frankly, like most 21-year-olds. She is starring in A Child of Science , a new play directed by Matthew Dunster – a former associate.
