The highly anticipated release of Netflix’s film Scoop has finally arrived. The film tells the behind-the-scenes story of Prince Andrew’s infamous 2019 Newsnight interview starring a transformed Rufus Sewell as Prince Andrew.
Regarded as ‘the scoop of the decade’, Netflix's Scoop not only covers the interview in which Emily Maitlis questioned the Duke of York about his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the sexual abuse allegations he faced. But it is also an adaptation of former Newsnight interview booker Sam McAlister’s novel Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews. The film tells the story from McAlister’s point of view, and it shows four women - McAlister, Esme Wren, Maitlis, and Amanda Thirsk - all central to the interview happening. Alongside Sewell as the prince, the film stars I Hate Suzie’s Billie Piper, Bodyguard actress Keeley Hawes, Atonement’s Romola Garai and Sex Education’s Gillian Anderson.
