New Netflix film on Prince Andrew’s bombshell BBC interview casts Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell

• Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell have been cast in Netflix’s Scoop.
• Scoop, about Prince Andrew’s bombshell BBC interview, will give viewers “the inside track on the women that broke through the Buckingham Palace establishment to secure the scoop of the decade that led to the catastrophic fall from grace of the queen’s ‘favourite son'”.
• Anderson will play Emily Maitlis, who interviewed the royal, while Sewell will play Prince Andrew.

Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell will star in Netflix’s new film, Scoop, about Prince Andrew’s bombshell BBC interview. 

In 2019, the son of Queen Elizabeth II sat down with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis and spoke candidly of his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew, whose since been accused of sexual assault himself but settled his case against Virginia Giuffre, later stepped down from his royal role following the fallout of the interview. 

Andrew “absolutely categorically” denied Giuffre’s claim the two had sex in his interview. Further, he said he was home with his daughters on the night Giuffre claims it happened, and they, therefore, did not share a sweaty dance in a nightclub.

He said he could not even sweat, in fact, due to a condition related to having fought in the 1982 Falklands War.

Gillian Anderson, who also starred in The Crown, will play Maitlis in the film by screenwriter Peter Moffat and directed by Philip Martin, who also worked on The Crown, while Rufus Sewell will play Prince Andrew. 

Keeley Hawes has also signed on to play Amanda Thirsk, the royal’s private secretary at the time, while Billie Piper will play Sam McAlister, the producer who negotiated Andrew’s booking and wrote the memoir Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, on which the film is based. 

A logline for the film reads Scoop will give viewers “the inside track on the women that broke through the Buckingham Palace establishment to secure the scoop of the decade that led to the catastrophic fall from grace of the queen’s ‘favourite son'”.