‘Failure Unquestionable’: Two Lead Actors First Turn Down This Netflix Movie

The substance is explosive. At least across the channel. When Prince Andrew spoke on camera during the BBC’s Newsnight show in 2019, it simply caused his downfall. His closeness to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his clumsy defense of the allegations against him were enough to convince Buckingham to strip him of his titles and functions.

And perhaps it’s the very nature of the subject that scared the two main Scoop actors off. Indeed, Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell revealed that they both responded.Absolutely notWhen asked to play Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew in a Netflix movie.

A privilege and a challenge

At a Netflix event in London, Gillian Anderson – the Sex Education star who also played Margaret Thatcher in The Crown – said she thinks she “He would surely fail“If he played the role of a BBC interviewer who was praised for the interview that preceded Prince’s downfall.

“Being able to play him was a privilege and a challenge“- added the actor.She is a great character and journalist and an incredibly impressive woman. So when they asked me to play him, I said, “Absolutely not, it’s too hard, he’s too amazing, everyone knows him too well, and I’m definitely going to fail.”“

Obsessed with the prince

Meanwhile, Rufus Sewell said he didn’t accept the role until he was in it.He worked alone for a while“, he reports Deadline :”I had an intuition to play this role and I thought I could bring something“, he added. “I don’t have a natural talent for mimicry, but I got there in a different way.“It must be said that the actor is absolutely unrecognizable in this role.

The actor confided that he then became “Obsessed with“Now the disgraced prince who watches the interview over and over and”dressing room“As Andrew always does. He also says he resisted temptation.”to avoid showing it in a favorable light“and have”Watched interviews where his charm worked“.

journalistic story

The scoop is “Not the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, nor Prince Andrew’sRufus Sewell insisted, but the story about the women who made the interview possible, led by Sam McAllister, played by Billie Piper.

“I attended the interview after it was widely reported” said Billie Piper, the Doctor’s former companion in Doctor Who.”This piqued my curiosity and I felt concerned. I felt that there were unsung heroes in this story that needed to be acknowledged..”

Scoop is currently available on Netflix.