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“And ‘Queen of Oz’ is actually a kind of catchier title,” she points out during a Q&A screening of the new series.

Meanwhile, Tate was enjoying a rave response during a comedy tour in Australia so she suggested to Dorter they move the setting from Canada to Down Under. Sarah Shatz/HBO It all feels like an extension of the ways the issues dominating the cultural and political discourse of the last few years MeToo, Black Lives Matter, gender identity and so on.

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Initially, the series was supposed to be set in Canada but after pitching it to local broadcasters no-one bit (“I still haven’t heard back but it’s not a no,” Tate jokes). version of “The Office” as well as her own BBC comedy series “The Catherine Tate Show” (for which she inhabited iconic characters such as foul-mouthed grandma Nan and argumentative teenager Lauren), says she first began developing the idea for “Queen of Oz” in 2017, after producer Borga Dorter asked if she wanted to work on a show about a car-crash queen who is exiled abroad. Tate, who is also regularly recognized by fans for playing Nellie in the U.S. “It must be awful to be constantly looked at and constantly scrutinized,” she acknowledges, later quipping: “I can imagine nothing worse than having to dedicate your life to the public.” “ an entirely fictitious creation.” But Tate sympathize with the pressures of royal life. “No, that sounds like a lot of hard work,” says Tate.

Nor did she study the royals to inform her portrayal.

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