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“Royals’ Health Battles Shouldn’t Be Brought To Screen,” Says ‘The Crown’ Star Gillian Anderson


Anderson played British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the Netflix drama.

The Sun newspaper quotes Gillian Anderson, who played British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the award-winning Netflix drama, saying: “It probably ended at the right spot. Anderson also stars in Scoop, Netflix’s drama telling how the BBC’s Newsnight team secured the interview with Prince Andrew, in which he defended his friendship with shamed entrepreneur Jeffrey Epstein. The interview, which was conducted in 2019, sparked a backlash against the prince, who then withdrew from public life, and earned numerous awards for its forensic journalism.

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