Prince Andrew’s disastrous BBC interview about Jeffrey Epstein association becoming a movie
Hugh Grant is on the wishlist of actors to play the disgraced royal
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Prince Andrew’s ugly history with Jeffrey Epstein will be re-immortalized in a new film about his bombshell BBC interview, according to a new Deadline report. Casting hasn’t yet begun for the movie, called Scoop, but Hugh Grant is apparently on the wishlist to play the notorious Duke of York.
A quick recap: Shortly after Epstein’s death in 2019, Andrew agreed to sit down for an interview, ostensibly to distance himself from the other man’s horrific alleged crimes. The attempt was a complete trainwreck in which he memorably claimed he couldn’t possibly have assaulted a then-17-year-old Virginia Roberts Giuffre because a war injury left him unable to sweat. Subsequently, he was retired from public life as a member of the Royal Family, sued by Giuffre, and eventually stripped of most of his royal titles.
The new film, from a script written by Peter Moffat (Your Honor), is based on the book Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews by Sam McAlister, one of the producers of the infamous interview. The story is “about how the BBC’s Newsnight team got the scoop, then the actual filming of it,” Moffat tells Deadline.
“The other thing is, ‘Why did he agree to do it?’ …How was it that he decided it was a good idea to do a great big long interview with Emily Maitlis on the BBC?” Moffat adds.
The screenwriter is focused on how the reporters pulled together the interview under pressure and amidst extreme secrecy, citing the “thrilling drama” of interactions between the BBC team and members of the Duke’s household, his private secretary Amanda Thirskm, and his daughter Princess Beatrice.
Scoop will be produced by The Lighthouse Film & Television, the production company founded by Hilary Salmon, Radford Neville and Nick Betts, along with Voltage TV. We’ll see whether the politically-minded Grant decides to take on the challenge of portraying the disgraced royal.
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What, is Kevin Spacey not availabl- oh. He’s not.
I think Timothy Spall would be an inspired choice here myself.
He would indeed.Don’t wanna come across as too shallow, but fer chrissakes who the hell looks at Prince Andrew and thinks, “Hmm, Hugh Grant should play that guy”?
I think Hugh Grant would be amazing at capturing the absurdity, arrogance, entitlement, and complete cluelessness of Prince Andrew.
Well, looking at photos of him as a younger man, there was a time when Prince Andrew had a kind of Hugh Grantish appeal to him, back before… well, everything.Plus, Grant’s having a bit of a career resurgence playing smarmy upperclass sleeze-balls who get themselves into trouble due to their own depravities.
We need to save Hugh Grant for the Boris Johnson/Tory Implosion mini-series:
Prince Andrew, Zeus . . . Hugh Grant is really in demand to play creepy sex monsters.
He also played a prime minister!
So it’s Frost/Nixon, then.
Yes, but about 200% dumber and tawdrier, as befits the current political moment.
It’s like Frost/Nixon if Nixon was physically incapable of sweating due to a war wound.
I never saw the interview, but I watched the pundits on The Last Leg react to it at least three times. They were so astonished and gobsmacked by it that it really sunk in to me what a huge deal this was in Britain. Watch the reaction on youtube if you can.
No, I don’t think I will
Thank you for mentioning The Last Leg reaction. I just watched it on YouTube and it was hilarious!
Adam Hills is one of our national treasures. /An Australian
What an idiot. I’m not condoning this behavior, but last I heard, the Age of Consent in Illinois is 17. I could go on about the Age of Consent in other US States, but I think the point has been made. From what I understand about the so-called Black Book of Celebrities & Other Social Figures who’ve been outed for their association with Epstein, should ALL suffer the same fate as Prince Andrew. If not having their careers ruined by it, they should, at the very least, be publicly humiliated by their involvement with Epstein & his despicable activities. Shame on ALL of them. I hope this movie sheds some light, not just on Prince Andrew, but also on the rest of those pathetic degenerate creeps, who engaged in those activities with children. I’m Absolutely Disgusted By The Whole Thing!
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