The Crown’s Emma Corrin displays underarm hair on magazine cover

She has won rave reviews for her debut role as Princess Diana in Netflix series The Crown, which was released on Sunday. 

And Emma Corrin, 24, stars on the front cover of Glamour UK, showing off unshaven armpits as she hopes to normalise this for women. 

Talking about the late Princess’s rebellious streak, she also shared her opinion on body hair.

Emma said: ‘I’ve been meaning to grow it for quite a few years, but I’m recently single. 

‘I’ve been in a relationship and I guess I was programmed to think that I should probably shave for the benefit of both parties. 

‘It’s been quite an underwhelming realisation that there’s no drama in it. It’s just there. I’m hoping it’s on the path to becoming normal.’

During the interview, Emma revealed that she doesn’t like to use the word ‘iconic’ when talking about Princess Diana. 

She said: ‘I find the word icon in reference to any woman we put on a pedestal to be quite reductive.

‘The label of icon ignores so much of who Diana was and her beautiful complexity. 

‘She was called the People’s Princess because people felt they could relate to her. That is so much more important than any kind of label.’

Emma also discussed how shooting on location in Spain for two months was a highlight for her, but the trip ended dramatically.

She said: ‘I’m asthmatic and had been ill for a while with a bad cough. I had to film a scene in a freezing-cold swimming pool. 

‘It was the hardest scene to film because I was genuinely keeping myself alive treading water. 

‘We were meant to be flying back that night to the UK and went past a hospital to get antibiotics. 

‘The doctors gave me an oxygen test and said, ‘We can’t let you go because your oxygen levels are so low,’ so I was hospitalised.

‘I remember the nurses figuring out what I was filming and saying, “Would you like us to put a cardboard box over your head so no one recognises you?” in broken English!”

Emma also spoke about filming the ballet lesson scene in Season 4 of The Crown and how letting go of pressures came in the form of dance for Diana, and, after learning jazz, tap and ballet for the role, Emma too felt liberated. 

She said: ‘When we filmed a scene of her having a ballet lesson, which was meant to symbolise her letting go, I was asked to dance to Believe by Cher – unchoreographed. 

‘I just lost my sh*t, and when I went out of the room everyone watching on the screens was crying. It felt like the truest way of working through stuff.’ 

See the special digital cover and the full feature on GLAMOUR UK: https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/emma-corrin-the-crown-cover-interview-2020