Josh O’Connor says he felt ‘spiritually lost’ after The Crown

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Josh O’Connor has spoken about feeling “spiritually lost” after starring in Netflix’s hit royal drama, The Crown. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly to promote his latest indie feature, Italian film La Chimera, O’Connor spoke about feeling kindred to his character who is “an outsider and he doesn't know where he belongs”. So there was a kind of real shape-shifting going on and a real element of trying to understand where I sat in the world.” Josh O’Connor in ‘La Chimera’ La Chimera, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, stars O’Connor as English archaeological scholar Arthur who “has the uncanny ability of intuiting where to find hidden artifacts”. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free O’Connor has previously spoken about struggling to deal with the The Crown fame, despite winning an Emmy for his performance as a young Prince Charles.