‘Scoop’ star Rufus Sewell immediately regretted Prince Andrew role
Prince Andrew’s trainwreck of a BBC Newsnight interview in 2019 with journalist Emily Maitlis has been immortalized in an upcoming Netflix flick titled “Scoop.”The drama will drop on the streamer April 5 with star Rufus Sewell as the disgraced Duke of York, 64, and Gillian Anderson as Maitlis.Sewell, 56, sat down with Good Morning Britain on Wednesday where he confessed that the role of the royal stressed him out.While “The Holiday” actor was initially excited for the part, he had regrets once he accepted.“I felt I could get behind it then afterwards, when I got the part, I was like ‘gosh what I have done?’ I’m not a natural mimic,” he explained.Sewell “obsessively watched the interview” alongside the rest of the world when it first premiered five years prior.“I was kind of transfixed for various reasons. Like most people I had my own judgements,” he said.“One of the reasons why I was so hesitant to take it was because I didn’t want to be seen as jumping on some bandwagon,” he said.