2018 Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees Recall Their Most Memorable Auditions

In order to land the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the acclaimed Netflix drama, Foy had to audition multiple times — while heavily pregnant. "It was slightly odd, I was five months pregnant when I got sent [the script], and all the time I was thinking, 'This is never going to happen.'" Foy recalled in a W Magazine screen test. "It was getting more and more ridiculous, the more pregnant I got, going in for these auditions, pretending to be the Queen of England." (Casting director Nina Gold remembers Foy wearing a gown, tiara and gloves while six months pregnant, in case you want to picture just how hysterical the whole thing was.)