Newsnight producer brands Duke of York ‘Randy Andy’ in Scoop trailer

Gillian Anderson had trouble making up her mind about her role in Scoop.

Scoop ( Friday, April 5), centers on Prince Andrew's first sit-down interview about his friendship with convicted sex offender, the late financier, (which later resulted in him stepping down from official royal duties), but the more profound story here is how it happened.That's where Anderson comes in. She plays BBC Newsnight anchor and journalist, Emily Maitlis, who conducted the infamous 2019 interview after months of tenacious work by her producer, Sam McAlister (played by Billie Piper), to secure the booking.“I remember hearing about the interview, but I hadn't seen it right [away],” Anderson tells me over Zoom from her New York hotel room.

The Netflix movie “Scoop,” (premiering April 5), dramatizes Prince Andrew’s famously disastrous November 2019 Newsnight interview.The movie follows BBC anchor Emily Maitlis (Gillian Anderson) and her team as she interviews the Duke of York, 64, (Rufus Sewell) about his alleged relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (who died of apparent suicide earlier that year).She also presses Prince Andrew about Virginia Giuffre’s sex abuse allegations, which he denied (and in 2022, they settled her sex abuse lawsuit out of court). In the real interview, Prince Andrew defended his choice to stay in a convicted sex offender’s home when he visited New York because he said that Epstein’s digs were, “A convenient place to stay.”The car-crash of an interview led to Prince Andrew getting fired from official royal duties by his mom, Queen Elizabeth II.

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“An hour of television can change everything” is the tagline of the new Netflix series “Scoop,” which dramatizes and is inspired by the true events surrounding the disastrous BBC Newsnight interview with British royal family member Prince Andrew. The streaming giant has released a new trailer for “Scoop,” and it showcases the tension/drama as the British media attempts to get to the bottom of allegations of Prince Andrew’s (now on the outs with Buckingham Palace) sexual assault of underage girls and his longtime connections/relationship to the late American criminal pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Scoop is coming soon to Netflix, and they just released a full-length trailer for the movie!

K.J. Yossman “The Crown” may have ended last year, but Netflix has another royal drama in store. The streamer has released the first trailer for “Scoop,” its feature-length dramatization of Prince Andrew‘s toe-curling interview with “Newsnight” anchor Emily Maitlis.

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