Since it first aired, The Crown has sparked new worldwide interest in the Royal Family and a revival of many mostly forgotten facts. Worse still, some forgotten interviews that the Windsors preferred to keep that way, but Netflix wasn’t going to let it go. In the sixth season of the series, Diana‘s criticized interview with the BBC will appear, just as Charles has already appeared in the fifth. As the series will end this year, covering well into the first decade of the millennium, we won’t see Meghan Markle or her interview with Prince Harry for Oprah. Or… Andrew‘s interview about his involvement with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Which doesn’t mean it will be forgotten by Netflix.

In 2022, at the end of season 5, the platform made the documentary Harry and Meghan available, which many bet will win the Emmy in 2023. It is possible, although the interview was lost in 2021. What is most interesting is that they are transforming the interview of Andrew into a film, The Scoop, which is finishing shooting and may be shown later this year.

The Scoop will follow the Frost/Nixon formula, a play written by the same showrunner of The Crown, Peter Morgan, later made into a film. Morgan is not involved with the project which is signed by Philip Martin (who works on The Crown). The focus here is on the BBC interview backstage, which was done without the Queen‘s authorization and which exposed Andrew in such a way that he was removed from public life. Part of what he said was also used in the process that ended in a millionaire settlement against him. Based on the memoir of former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister, Scoops: Behind The Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, who was the one who managed to convince the prince to speak, the film reunites Emmy winner of The Crown, Gillian Anderson who plays the interviewer Emily Maitlis, Bodyguard‘s Keeley Hawes, who plays Amanda Thirsk, Prince Andrew‘s former private secretary, and Collateral‘s Billie Piper, who will play Sam McAlister. Although it was speculated that Hugh Grant would play the prince, the role went to Rufus Sewell, currently cast in another Netflix series, The Diplomat.

It’s a film about power, privilege, and different perspectives and how – whether in gleaming palaces or high-tech newsrooms – we judge what is true,” said Philip Martin before the shooting began. The feature will focus on the female gaze of the team that “guaranteed the scoop of the decade that led to the catastrophic fall of the Queen’s “favorite son”, directly involved in a scandal of the network of sexual exploitation of minors. More than the interview per se, The Scoop will portray the journalists’ long process of being able to “navigate through the Palace vetoes, to reach Prince Andrew’s inner circle, the high-stakes negotiations and the intensity of the essay”.

The film confirms the information that Andrew followed the guidance and had the support of his daughter, Beatrice, something that many also criticized despite the immense popularity of the princess among subjects and young people. In the film, she will be played by actress Charity Wakefield, also known as Georgina Nymov from The Great. The actress spoke with MiscelAna about the series (soon in CLAUDIA’s column) but agreed to say a few words about The Scoop.

“A world apart in terms of style and type of work [compared to The Great],” she laughed and was careful. “We are talking about people who are very significant in my life, in the life of my country, and events that are very difficult subjects,” she explained. “Playing someone important like Princess Beatrice was a very delicate process, but I feel very honored to play her because she is someone I have always looked up to and still look up to,” she said.

Without being able to go into details, she explained: “The intention of the film is to somehow recreate and understand from a different point of view something that we have already seen. So that process is really interesting and I admire people a lot, like Rufus Sewell who played Prince Andrew. I’m really interested to see how it turns out and I believe it’s worth talking about,” she added.

The biggest bet is that The Scoop will be released shortly after The Crown, which should be in December of this year. It will be?

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