The Crown stars' Lizzo dance routine was 'never meant to see the light of day'

Turns out the stars of The Crown are talented in more ways than one. Photo / Supplied

Here's something fans of The Crown never thought they'd see - the stars of the Netflix show Olivia Colman and Gillian Anderson dancing to Lizzo.

Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Anderson, who stars as the former British PM Margaret Thatcher on the fourth season of the show, admitted the clip of her and her co-stars' dance routine was "never meant to see the light of day", reports Fox News.

The clip shows the stars of The Crown performing a choreographed dance to the opening lines of Lizzo's feel-good 2016 single Good as Hell, before bursting into laughter.

And it sounds like Colman isn't just talented when it comes to acting.

Anderson told Meyers, "Olivia (Colman) apparently does a dance class in the area that she lives with a bunch of friends, on a regular basis, and the last time she did the class, they had danced to that Lizzo song."

The star went on to explain that Colman asked the rest of the cast if they would be interested in doing the dance and letting her video it.

"And then she would just share it only with her friends – the other dancers. So it was never meant to see the light of day," she admitted.

Meyers was quick to point out, "And yet, here we are."

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And while the show's host went on to heap praise on the cast's performance, Anderson joked in return that the video was "so humiliating".

And she pointed out her expression in the video was one of "such delight and shame all at once".

"I would like to say both that I think you did a better job than Margaret Thatcher would have done, and also acknowledging that I think that's a pretty low bar," Meyers replied.

Anderson and Colman brought two of Britain's most famous female figures to life in the fourth season of The Crown.

Colman is set to be replaced by Imelda Staunton in the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the next season.