Gillian Anderson to star in Netflix drama of Andrew’s Newsnight interview
Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell will star in the new TV series Scoop, based on the interview the Duke of York gave BBC Newsnight.
etflix said the film will give viewers “inside traces” of how Andrew was questioned by host Emily Maitlis about his relationship with late billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in November. 2019.
After the interview and outrage over his friendship with Epstein, the duke withdrew from public life.
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Rufus Sewell Will Play The Duke Of York In Scoop (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
Sex Education star Anderson, 54, who won a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice TV Award for her role as Margaret Thatcher on the Netflix series The Crown, will play Maitlis.
Andrew will be played by Sewell, 55, who recently starred in The Man In The High Castle and The Pale Horse.
The upcoming series is based on the memoirs of former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister Scoops: The BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews From Prince Andrew To Steven Seagal.
Netflix said it would be looking at “navigation of Palace vetoes, to break into Prince Andrew’s inner circle, high-stakes talks and rehearsal intensity – right up to the interview itself.” surprising”.
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Billie Piper as former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister (Ian West/PA)
The film will also highlight “journalists who have the tenacity and courage to push the limits”.
McAlister, who spent a year securing a one-on-one meeting on camera with Andrew and left the BBC in July 2021, said: “Ending work with this extraordinary is beyond my wildest dreams. me, especially as a first time writer. great cast, Netflix and teams at The Lighthouse and Voltage.”
She added that when she watches “one” of her favorite actresses, Billie Piper, known for Doctor Who and I Hate Suzie, play her, she will have a “self-pinch” moment. “.
Keeley Hawes, who starred in It’s A Sin and more recently Stonehouse, also plays Amanda Thirsk, the duke’s former private secretary.
In the award-winning interview of the year at the Royal Television Society Awards in 2020, the duke denied claims he had a sexual relationship with Virginia Giuffre.
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Ms Giuffre claims she was trafficked by Epstein, who died in August 2019, on three separate occasions, including when she was 17 – still a minor under US law.
She said the duke was sweating profusely as they danced at London’s Tramp nightclub during an alleged get-together.
However, Andrew told Maitlis that he was ill at the time from serving in the Falklands War, which meant he wasn’t sweating and he had no memory of ever meeting Miss Giuffre.
He said he spent the day at Pizza Express in Woking partying with one of his daughters.
Last year, the duke settled the US sexual assault case out of court, although the settlement was not an admission of guilt and he has always steadfastly denied the charges against him.
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Keeley Hawes as Amanda Thirsk, former private secretary to the Duke of York (Ian West/PA)
Philip Martin of The Crown, who directs Scoop, said: “With a fast-paced, immersive and cinematic feel, I wanted to immerse the audience in the spectacular sequence of events leading up to the interview with Prince Andrew – to tells a story about the search for answers, in a world of various speculations and recollections.
“It’s a movie about power, privilege and different points of view and how – whether in a glitzy palace or a high-tech newsroom – we judge what’s right.”
The interview was previously covered by Channel 4’s Prince Andrew: The Musical, in which Maitlis is played by actress and comedian Emma Sidi and Andrew is played by Kieran Hodgson.
Maitlis, who joined the BBC in 2001, presented Newsnight from 2006 until last year when she left the broadcaster for rival media group Global, where she presented the podcast The News Agents to journalists. Newspapers Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall.
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