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By Savannah Walsh
Nearly five years after the high-profile 2019 BBC Newsnight interview in which Prince Andrew defended his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Windsor’s biggest public misstep, after which it forced him to “step aside” from all public squares as a member of the royal family. “It’s fitting a movie. ” Array
Netflix has debuted the first trailer for Scoop, a film starring Rufus Sewell as Prince Andrew (at one point Hugh Grant was reportedly on the list for the role) and Gillian Anderson as interviewer Emily Maitlis. The script, written by Your Honor’s Peter Moffat, is based on the book Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews by former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister, who is played by Billie Piper in the film. The Crown’s Philip Martin directs a cast that also features Romola Garai as BBC editor Esme Wren and Keeley Hawes as Andrew’s private secretary, Amanda Thirsk.
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The explosive session, which is said to have been greenlit by Queen Elizabeth II, was aired just months after Epstein, the tough financier who pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from minors in 2008, was discovered dead on his prison phone while awaiting trial in federal court. Sex trafficking charges. His death was a suicide. Speaking to Maitlis, Andrew claimed that he had no recollection of meeting Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who claimed Epstein forced her to have sex with Andrew, and denied all allegations against him. £12 million with Giuffre. )
There was an avalanche of consequences in the weeks that followed. The Times UK reported that Prince Andrew’s public relations adviser, Jason Stein, resigned two weeks before the interview because he warned the prince that he objected to participating in the interview. A source close to the palace told The Times that he believed the interview “would be regarded as one of the worst PR moves in recent history. “Several charities affiliated with the Duke of York distanced themselves, culminating in his official resolution to step down from public duties as a royal. .
“It’s catastrophic,” a friend of Andrew’s told Vanity Fair’s Mark Seal in 2022. “It’s a crescendo of horrors; It has gotten worse and worse.
Scoop arrives on Netflix on April 5.
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