Netflix's Scoop: Gillian Anderson and Billie Piper on dramatising the explosive interview with Prince Andrew
When Gillian Anderson was initially offered the chance to play Emily Maitlis, she turned it down.
“My thought was, ‘No way,’” she tells me. “Too scary. Too alive. And everybody knows her too well.” Of course, Anderson eventually came round – and it’s her performance as Maitlis that forms the lynchpin of Netflix’s new film Scoop.
Scoop tells the story of the BBC’s infamous Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew about his relationship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein (Andrew denies all charges of wrongdoing).
It drew record ratings and led to Andrew stepping back from public life –
