Kristen Stewart Transforms Into Princess Diana In First 'Spencer' Trailer

Kristen Stewart makes her debut as Princess Diana in the first teaser trailer for the upcoming biopic Spencer. The first footage of Stewart as the late royal was released at CinemaCon on Wednesday (August 26) ahead of its release to the public.

"She was always Diana Spencer," the film's production company wrote in a tweet, calling Spencer "a fable" about the Princess of Wales. In the accompanying footage, Stewart can be seen uncannily embodying Diana as she struggles through one fateful weekend with the Royal Family.

In addition to the trailer, Neon released the first poster for the film. The stunning image sees the fictional Diana bowled over in a couture gown. "Every fairy tale ends," the caption reads.

During a recent interview, Stewart opened up about how portraying Diana deeply affected her. "Now, I can't stop thinking about her," Stewart said "I often wonder what she'd think about what's going on in the world right now. To be honest, I've now consumed pretty much all there is to consume in terms of videos and interviews. I've watched everything that you could hear or see. I even go to sleep with it on."

Spencer focuses on just one weekend in the life of Princess Diana, following the young royal as she navigates the Christmas holiday with the royal family at Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Over the course of the weekend, Princess Diana comes to the decision to leave Prince Charles.

"Spencer is a dive inside an emotional imagining of who Diana was at a pivotal turning point in her life,” Stewart previously said in a statement about the film. “It is a physical assertion of the sum of her parts, which starts with her given name: Spencer. It is a harrowing effort for her to return to herself, as Diana strives to hold onto what the name Spencer means to her.”

The script was written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, who said in an interview with Variety that working on Spencer "has been a pleasure. I think it’s a different perspective on a story that we don’t all know well, but we all feel we now are a part of it...And I just found the whole thing fascinating. To talk to people who knew her and to try and get a view of this person — who this person really was — who was an ordinary person in extraordinary situations is the way I think of her.”

Spencer will arrive in theaters on November 5th.