‘Scoop’ star Rufus Sewell immediately regretted Prince Andrew role

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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. “I just wanted to do a truthful representation of him and that includes good and bad.

It’s to show the light and dark and we all have both. He is a human like everyone else.”The infamous — and disastrous — “Newsnight” — chat between Andrew and Maitlis was conducted in an effort to get to the bottom of the prince’s friendship with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein died by suicide at age 66 in his Manhattan lockup in August 2019 while awaiting serious sex charges.The men were friends in the 2000s, with Andrew later being sued by Epstein victim Virginia Roberts.