Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson discuss their roles in 'A Very Royal Scandal'
“I watched it with a few friends and I remember being utterly gobsmacked like everyone else,” Wilson, 42, told The Post, referring to the real interview.
In 2019, Prince Andrew sat down for a famously bizarre interview with Maitlis as she probed at his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (who died“In retrospect, why it’s so fascinating — and hopefully still so compelling for people — is that you realize it’s so rare that someone of power and privilege voluntarily puts themself in a position where they’re going to be made accountable,” Sheen, who is Welsh, told The Post.
“I think just by sheer dint of telling this story, it brings those issues out into the air, into the public forum to be thought about and debated again … I think it’s really important that we as a culture and a society are made to look at this again, and not for it to disappear. Even though that would suit certain people.”Wilson spoke with the real Maitlis before the project and observed her habits.
Sheen, meanwhile, approached the role thinking about the Duke of York like a “character” rather than the real person.
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