Lead singer of the punk rock band Sex Pistols, John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, has revealed that he had turned down the offer to get portrayed in Netflix’s The Crown, after objecting to the show%u2019s %u201Cdistortion%u201D of history. The dispute with %u201CThe Crown,%u201D described as %u201Can infuriating issue%u201D by Lydon, emerged during a court case he is currently involved in regarding another on-screen depiction of the Sex Pistols for FX.
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Lydon said the Netflix show%u2019s producers contacted him about a season 3 episode portraying the Queen%u2019s Silver Jubilee in 1977 (the celebration of the 25th anniversary of her ascension to the throne). Lydon said the producers had planned to depict the band on-screen disrupting the monarch%u2019s celebratory boat ride down the River Thames. %u201CEvents that simply did not happen,%u201D said Lydon, reported Variety.
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%u201CThe producers of %u2018The Crown%u2019 wanted to distort the history of the day and depict me as a political protester and to show scenes of protest in front of the Queen in the middle of her jubilee celebrations,%u201D he claimed in his statement. In reality, the Sex Pistols chartered their own boat a full two days before the Queen%u2019s scheduled celebratory procession down the Thames in 1977.
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%u201CThe producers agreed to use film footage of the boat trip instead,%u201D he continued. %u201CBut, the story that they presented with the Queen in despair in her carriage, and all those ugly scenes on the streets of crowds fighting and chucking bottles, whilst others were celebrating the Queen. Nobody was rioting and here is my real serious problem with it. This never happened. This is a lie to history, it%u2019s a lie about history, of the Sex Pistols%u2019 history.%u201D
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After scrapping the Sex Pistols storyline, %u201CThe Crown%u2019s%u201D season 3 finale ended with Queen Elizabeth II (played by Olivia Colman) stepping into a royal carriage to begin the jubilee procession from Buckingham Palace while crowds cheer outside.
