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Naked and shamed, this is Andrew's hubris laid bare: BRIAN VINER reviews Netflix film scoop about THAT Newsnight interview - complete with Rufus Sewell's emotionally-arrested prince and Billie Piper's brassy booker
The film begins in New York in 2010, when photographer Jae Donnelly (Connor Swindells) takes the now notorious snap of Andrew and Epstein strolling through Central Park, in earnest conversation.
Less than five years after Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis grilled Prince Andrew about his friendship with the paedophile sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the specific claim that a 17-year-old girl was forced to have sex with him on three occasions, the infamous interview and events leading up to it have been dramatised by Netflix. Well, I can think of dramas about plane crashes, tsunamis, nuclear explosions and indeed the misadventures of oil tankers, so - even metaphorically - all those things combined with the Royal Family were certain to end, sooner or later, in a feature film. No less surprisingly, Scoop boasts a top-quality cast with brassy Sam McAlister, Newsnight's interview booker whose tenacity landed the prize catch, played, splendidly, by Billie Piper
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