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«The Crown 5», wanted actor (with red hair) to play Harry as a child

Thanks to his tawny hair the prince Harry, a few months ago, he earned the title of “World’s Most Attractive Red Haired Celebrity”. But now that hair is giving many headaches to the producers of The Crown, that they struggle to find a very young actor suitable to play the prince as a child. In the next season of the Netflix series, the second son of Carlo e Diana will be between 6 and 13 years old. But the casting, as the Sun, is proving particularly difficult: you can’t find a red-haired child suitable for the part.

“The bosses have incredibly high standards when it comes to hiring actors,” he explained to Sun an insider. “Every aspiring cast member has to meet a long list of criteria.” Among the criteria required of little Harry’s interpreter there are, in fact, red hair. But “Finding a suitable candidate is proving incredibly difficult”. The producers, “determined to hire the right actor, as similar as possible to the original”.

The basin from which to draw a possible red-haired interpreter is, in fact, quite small. S.only 1-2% of people of European origin have this color of hair. Harry is part of the “club” and leaves proud. A couple of years ago, in Birkenhead, a 4-year-old girl with tawny hair managed to attract the attention of the prince with a orange sign that he recited «#GingersUnite». The duke stopped, embraced her and said: “Do you like red hair? I love this sign, is fantastic».

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