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Gillian Anderson On ‘Scoop’, Battling Insecurity, And Finding Her Voice: “Maybe I Need To Go Out Of My Comfort Zone”
'Scoop' Star Gillian Anderson shares her insights about recreating journalist Emily Maitlis's infamous 2019 BBC interview with Prince Andrew.
With the financial freedom The X-Files offered, she was called back to London to tread the boards, and from her earliest appearances on the West End stage she wowed audiences and critics alike, and earned three Olivier Award nominations. As a host of the BBC’s news output, and then a main presenter on its flagship current affairs show Newsnight, she had become one of the most celebrated newsreaders and journalists in the country when, in 2019, she sat for an interview with Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The story of that interview is told in Netflix’s Scoop, which stars Anderson as Maitlis and details how an expected easy ride from the nation’s premier broadcaster to discuss the prince’s charity work became appointment viewing when it came to light that Andrew, a senior member of the British Royal Family, had continued a friendship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein years after he was convicted of child prostitution.
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