'The Crown' Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other

Okay.

Can I write it down? Hold on, hold on.

We need to confer. Let's confer.

Oh, is it...

No, it's not a team game, mate!

Oh, we're not conferring?

No, man! [blows raspberry] Are we against each other?

[Beep] yourself up there! Yeah!

[lively game show music]

Hi, I'm Meg Bellamy.

And I'm Ed McVey.

And I'm Luther Ford.

We are the cast of The Crown.

And we are gonna test how well we know each other.

For Vanity Fair!

Nailed it.

Who do you think is gonna win?

[Ed inhales sharply]

Myself.

[Meg laughs] Luther.

Confident with it. We'll see.

Are we ready? First question.

[crosstalk]

First question is- Right.

What is my biggest pet peeve?

Ooh! I'm gonna say it's,

just because you kinda mentioned it earlier today,

people chewing with their mouth open.

That's my guess.

[inhales sharply] Violence?

[Meg and Ed laugh]

Is that a pet peeve, or is that too...

[Ed] No, no.

Babies crying.

Ooh! All right. That's a good one.

Okay, my answer is loud open-mouth chewing.

Ding-ding-ding! Come on.

A bit of this. [smacks lips]

Yeah.

Question number two.

What theme park did I work at?

Bonus point, what was my job there?

Okay, well, we know it's Legoland.

Okay, I'm not sure you understand

the point of this game, Luther!

[Meg and Ed laugh]

What is the point?

[Ed laughs] [Luther murmurs]

So basically, you're saying- Are we supposed to keep it

in our head?

No, no, no, no.

So you said, yeah, Legoland,

and then what's the bonus point?

What do you think the bonus point?

You were a brick.

[Ed laughs] You were dressed as a brick.

What did you call her?

Okay, the answer is Legoland, and I put entertainment.

So, yeah.

Ooh. But also,

brackets, Red Brick.

So I'm gonna

give that to Luther. [bell dings]

[Ed] All right then.

We're even-Stevens. That's all right.

I'm not upset. Here we go.

How do I take my tea?

Milk? Very British.

No. Oat milk.

Vegan. Famous vegan.

[Meg laughs] Very famous vegan.

[Meg] Famous.

Okay, so you're saying oat milk?

Strong, oat milk, no sugar.

Okay, I'm gonna say no oat milk at all.

You're saying black tea? Black tea?

You sure about that?

Sure.

Well, I could say oat milk,

but I feel like you've already said it.

The answer is oat milk, one sugar.

Oh! Wrong.

The sugar does depend on how I feel,

but as a general basis, I'd say this is safe.

Do you put sugar in your tea?

One, maybe no points awarded in this round.

Oh, okay.

We're going slightly deeper! Oh.

[laughs] What is my biggest fear?

Probably that you never work again.

Is that your answer?

[laughs] I think so.

All right. For me, it's right.

And you're hated publicly.

[Meg and Ed laugh]

All right, you gotta choose one.

Is it never work again, or publicly hated?

Never work again, never work again.

Never work again. Yeah.

Jeez. Deep, open water.

Oh, interesting!

Okay. The answer is loved ones dying, question mark.

I feel like that's a valid fear.

It's gonna happen, but that would be rubbish.

You've gotta commit to your own answer.

Loved ones dying!

[Ed and Luther] Exclamation point!

Okay, who is my style icon?

Ooh.

Style icon?

Can I give a clue?

Oh, lovely! Oh!

It's a character, not a real person.

Oh! Yeah.

Is it an animated character?

That's all you're getting.

[Meg and Ed laugh]

Okay. Oh, a character. Character.

[Ed] Ooh.

Batman?

[laughs] Batman! Bruce Wayne.

[laughs] Yeah!

What about Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction?

That would be a great one.

I'm just gonna take a stab in the dark.

Emma Stone's character in La La Land.

Ah, okay. Ah, that's quite good.

That's quite good. But Villanelle, Killing Eve.

[Ed and Luther] Oh!

She's great!

I feel like- Oh, good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

Also, Jodie Comer. Couldn't tell.

Jodie Comer, yeah. Muy bien.

Yeah, perfection!

What sport did Kate and I both play in school?

Oh!

Again, I've said this today.

Did you have any horses

[laughs] at your school? No.

No? Let's say...

I've got an answer. Netball.

Yeah, I would say netball, too.

You can't, I've said it first.

Oh, I can say netball! You gotta go somewhere else.

All right, water polo.

[Meg laughs]

Yeah, it's netball. Congratulations.

Come on, right. [bell dings]

I gave him that one.

No, you didn't!

I did! I said it first.

Shut up. [Luther grunts]

Great! Well, congrats!

[Meg laughs] Thank you!

Cheers!

[lively music]

All right. That's good,

writing it down before we say anything.

Okay, what is my go-to karaoke song?

I think it'll be loud.

[Ed laughs] I'll start with that.

All right. I think there would be

a huge projection, so I'm thinking a ballad.

I'm thinking of something edgy.

Oh! Yeah.

I'm thinking like...

An edgy ballad? Where Are You.

[laughs] I'm so sorry!

Proud Mary.

Wow, strong, strong choice. Tina Turner.

Also Cilla Black.

Yeah.

What's the Cilla Black song?

[Ed] Killing Me Softly.

♪ Strumming my ♪

Killing Me Softly?

Okay. Yeah.

I'd probably destroy this song, and not in a good way,

but it is Life Is a Highway,

Rascal Flatts. [Meg gasps]

No!

Cars! That is a difficult one.

Cars, yeah, yeah. That's so good!

And here we have Ed McVey's rendition.

[laughs] Of Life Is a Highway.

Okay, so next question. When's my birthday?

We celebrated your birthday,

didn't we? I feel like...

Yeah, you did, so I'm gonna be very upset.

Okay, March- No.

[Meg murmurs]

April the 17th.

No, I think too late. January, February, March...

It's late March. The poker face.

It's the 26th!

Can I do March 13th?

It's the 30th of May.

[Luther laughs] May, March, May. Same thing!

Same thing!

Aww! Did I get you a present?

Probably not.

All right, [inhales sharply] where did I grow up?

Ooh. Oh, Devon!

Beep! Devon!

She got it first.

Yeah, Devon.

On a farm!

Bonus point.

[laughs] There's no bonus point.

Bonus point?

To be fair, I didn't say bonus point, so...

But what if I say bonus point?

[Ed blows air through lips, laughs]

It is Devon.

I mean, they both kinda said it.

[Crew Member] They both said it.

They're both doing pretty terribly,

so we'll give you one point.

Brilliant!

Okay.

Ooh, okay!

Sorry, I'm just gonna write my answer.

[Meg imitates Ed murmuring]

[Ed imitates Meg's imitation]

What was my first non-acting job?

Beep. Front of house at a theater.

It's gonna be too late. No, I don't think...

That's not his first job, though.

No, I know. You've surely had

a job before that.

In a restaurant

or something? I think you've worked

in a pub at some point.

But I don't think it's a pub.

[inhales sharply] Yeah, I think he worked in a cafe,

coming to the tables,

what drink- What was your final-

Being nice. Final options?

Putting it down. Yeah, serving scones.

Sadly, Luther, I was actually a bartender.

So you shoulda stuck with your guns

on that one. I was close.

You should. Shoot.

Now, I would love to work in a cafe, though.

I feel like that would be quite chill.

Oh, here we go.

Okay, you guys, you're gonna enjoy this.

What is my go-to phrase to say

when getting into William's accent?

Oh, Round and round the roundabout

and down to Chile to play polo.

I need to now write it out.

[laughs] Well, I'll wait.

I wouldn't have known that.

Okay, so, yeah, it's Round the roundabout

and down to Chile to play polo.

That's my bit. [bell dings]

There you go. That's my bit

to get into it. Sounded great.

So it's just the sounds of, instead of oh, make it...

Wait, how does it...

It's basically the vowel sounds of about being like abaut.

It's basically just like...

And it's Round the roundabout,

and down, to Chile, to play polo.

And it just

sits in. Boom.

But yeah, no, it works.

[laughs] I think it worked.

[Meg and Luther laugh]

I thought it worked!

It is great. Ooh! Oh, this is cute.

This is cute. You're delusional.

What's my love language?

[Meg and Luther] Aww!

[Ed] Aw, come on!

Your love language?

Yeah!

What are the love languages? How many languages

are there?

There's physical touch, quality time, acts of service...

[laughs] [Meg laughs] All right!

All right! Jesus Christ!

Cosmopolitan!

[Ed laughs] Wow!

That came out quickly!

[Meg laughs] Jeez!

Jesus!

[Ed] [laughs] Wow!

Okay, so what are they?

And there's a verbal one, isn't there?

Like words of- I don't know. You tell me.

You seem to know about it.

Words of affirmation? Is that what it's called?

Sure.

[Meg giggles]

I feel like you'd like some praise.

Words can be-

[laughs] My soft, soft ego.

I'm also...

Surely it's touch.

I'm gonna go words of affirmation.

Okay, I'm not surprised Luther knows that.

It is touch.

What does that mean? We spent a lot

of time together.

[bell dings] And I was waiting on you

to get that.

I was very happy you got that right.

That's me!

So, Luther, I think Luther won that round, didn't he?

What? Wow!

Oh, was I winning?

[Ed] Right, right.

Right.

What was my first job?

[Ed imitates buzzer]

Hello?

[all laugh]

You were a runner in a documentary.

Can I just say that, too,

and pretend I knew that one all along?

No, go for something else.

Okay. Even though that's correct?

I'm gonna go with-

It might not be.

You were a scuba diver

[Ed snorts] at an aquarium in Dubai,

and your job was specifically to

[laughs] eat their dodgy fish. Imagine if he tried

scuba diving in Dubai!

Right. All right. [Meg and Ed laugh]

Okay, you're both wrong.

My first job, I was working at an antique shop,

in brackets, cleaning spoons.

To be fair, I've never

heard that from him. Whoa!

[Luther] Yeah, I spent-

I was like, Yeah, he's got it.

Yeah, every Saturday- I said it

with such confidence! Go downstairs, in the dark,

polish spoons. Polish spoons!

It was awful. It was really bad.

Yeah. Yeah?

And I was an awful worker.

I bet you were.

I was terrible.

All right. Mm!

I don't know.

What do Harry and I have in common?

Ginger hair? [Luther laughs]

I think we are both ginger, I believe.

[Meg laughs]

Good answer?

From Ed.

Ginger.

Okay. [Ed laughs]

I'm gonna go

tall?

[laughs] Tall? I don't know.

I've said cheeky.

Hey! Aw, I was gonna say-

That's good!

Mischievous! Yeah, cheeky!

What I don't know is that I feel

I can't call myself cheeky. Cheek championship.

I'll call you cheeky! You've got it.

Okay, you dirty lightweight!

What is the name of the film

I wrote, directed, edited,

and starred in? Oh! Oh, I-

Three Donkeys?

Good answer. That's not the one.

Oh! Available on my

Instagram, though!

Oh, no!

Dah!

Ah, it was the one you did in lockdown, it was the one

you did in lockdown. Yeah, that's right,

that's right.

And, it was the one

you did in lockdown. Have you watched it?

Yeah.

Have you? Yeah, yeah!

And you've got really long hair.

Yes, I do!

And you take your top off, don't you?

[Meg and Ed laugh] God, your memory's

very selective.

That's a tiny part.

It's the most

important part! It was a good part, though.

You wanna just guess something?

I'm gonna go with Three Donkeys,

just so that you can plug both at the same time.

I can't remember what it's called.

I'll give you a half-point. Can I call it Lockdown.

Yeah, sure. I'll give you a half-point.

It's called Dream Between,

and it's on my YouTube. Ah!

I think you both know this.

What musical instrument can I play?

[Ed imitates buzzer]

Piano.

Piano!

Piano! You're right.

Should we [bell dings]

bring in the piano?

[Meg laughs] Yeah, bring in the piano!

And you can do your karaoke.

Yeah, exactly! Yeah, what,

Life Is a Highway?

[Meg and Ed laugh]

Who is my dream director to work with?

[Meg sighs] [Ed inhales sharply]

Can I give one out?

Yeah, please.

David Fincher?

I'll give you a clue.

What?

[all laugh]

You've said my answer now!

I'm sorry.

Give me the clue! I'd love that.

One name is right.

Oh, wait. So can I go again, then,

if you're giving a clue?

David Cameron.

[Luther giggles]

Wait, wait.

David Cameron?

[giggles] What am I saying?

I don't know! You mean James Cameron.

What, the former Conservative

prime minister? The prime minister?

Is there a clue coming?

Yes. One of the names you said.

Is David?

Yeah, it's David something.

He's not my favorite director, but...

Careful! He's...

Oh, maybe he is.

I just, oh, I love him.

I love him more as a person-

Say what you're gonna say. Oh!

Than a director permits. Have you met him?

He lives the art life.

David... Cigarettes and coffee?

[laughs] I was thinking of David Cameron.

Cigarettes and coffee?

Ooh, ooh, ooh,

ooh, ooh! Do we know?

David Lynch, David Lynch, David Lynch!

Interesting.

I don't know.

David Cameron? Should we go with-

[Meg and Ed] David Cameron?

I'm positive. It is David Lynch.

Ah, close! [Ed claps]

I love David Lynch! [bell dings]

If you don't know, every day,

on his YouTube channel, he does the weather in L.A.

He just does a weather report.

Does he? He does that, and also,

he picks a number out of a box every day,

and just says, Today's number is 42.

[Meg laughs] And that's it.

And it's just no context? He's a genius!

[game show music with chime]

Oh! [Meg applauds and cheers]

[Ed murmurs]

[Ed murmurs] Congratulations.

I'd prefer David Cameron to have won that!

Oh, look at that!

Oh! Wow!

♪ Dun da dah! ♪ Oh, yeah.

Well, it doesn't quite fit, but bang!

Yeah! Ah!

What does that mean?

How does that feel?

Pretty great.

[lively music]