Claire Foy auditioned for 'The Crown' wearing a tiara, gloves, and gown while she was 6 months pregnant

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Nina Gold is the casting director for Netflix's series "The Crown."
Claire Foy was cast as the young Queen Elizabeth II.
Gold told INSIDER Foy auditioned "in the full regalia with tiara, long gloves, and gown and she was six months pregnant with a lovely, huge belly."

Claire Foy plays the determined and poised Queen Elizabeth II on Netflix's original series "The Crown." Nina Gold, an award-winning member of the Casting Society of America, was part of the team who put together the cast of royal lookalikes. Gold told INSIDER how she knew Foy would be the right choice for Queen Elizabeth after a memorable audition.

"The audition process had a hilarious culmination with her coming to finally test," Gold said. "After a few other auditions, [Foy] was in the full regalia with tiara, long gloves, and gown. And it's worth noting that she was six months pregnant with a lovely, huge belly. But all of us completely ignored that bit."

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Gold had been familiar with Foy's work, and was thrilled to be able to cast her in "The Crown" as well as in an earlier project where Foy played another famed royal.

"I've always loved Claire Foy and watched her a lot since drama school," Gold said. "I had tried to cast her several times but it had never been quite right. Then we cast her as Anne Boleyn in 'Wolf Hall' and she was absolutely brilliant."

For Foy's part, auditioning for "The Crown" while pregnant was a unique experience.

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"It was getting more and more ridiculous the more pregnant I got, going in for these auditions pretending to be the Queen of England," Foy told W Magazine earlier this year. "It was just really surreal."

Filming began for "The Crown" four months after Foy gave birth. "I had to wear a corset because I had quite a lot of baby weight in the beginning," Foy told W Magazine.

Foy will reprise her role as Queen Elizabeth II when season two of "The Crown" airs on Netflix on December 8, 2017. In the meantime, see how Foy and her fellow cast mates compare to the real life royals.

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