"Even though the movie takes place over a three-day period and even though I play her as a speculatively 29, 30-year-old person, we still wanted to give a taste of the scope of her life," Stewart told ET. "And the wedding dress is embedded in that montage and putting that on was a spooky day."
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As Stewart said to Zima, the film does not actually contain a scene of Diana and Charles getting married, but Larraín did film the actress wearing a replica of Princess Diana's famous wedding dress outside of a castle.
"I was like, 'Wait, but this is so particular,'" she said. "This actually does land on a very precise day of her life."
Stewart went on to say that Larraín told her: "What does it feel like to believe in an ideal that then becomes very, very apparently farcical? It's kind of just like, let your heart break in a moment."
"I was like, 'OK got it. Let's go,'" she said.
Larraín also told ET that he thought Stewart was "scared" when filming in the wedding gown.
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"I think when she wore it, she was, she had mixed feelings," Larraín said to ET of Stewart's experience wearing the dress, which was created by costume designer Jackie Duran.
"She was scared and excited, which also worked for the character as we were shooting," he added to ET. "I think that's exactly what's in the movie."
"Spencer" premieres in theaters on November 5.
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