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Gillian Anderson Shares Why She Feels 'The Crown' Ended at the Right Time (Exclusive)


The actress portrayed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the hit Netflix series.

While there may be a huge clamoring from fans of The Crown to continue telling the royal family's story despite the series ending after six masterful seasons, don't count Gillian Anderson among those people. In Netflix's Scoop, Anderson portrays BBC journalist Emily Maitlis, who grills Prince Andrew (Rufus Sewell) about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. I think in this instance with this latest double-whammy of news the least that people can do is give them a bit of a break and let the headlines settle down for them, to process this as the human beings that they actually are."

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