6 lines from the real disastrous Prince Andrew interview that ‘Scoop’ left out

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The Netflix movie “Scoop,” (premiering April 5), dramatizes Prince Andrew’s famously disastrous November 2019 Newsnight interview.The movie follows BBC anchor Emily Maitlis (Gillian Anderson) and her team as she interviews the Duke of York, 64, (Rufus Sewell) about his alleged relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (who died of apparent suicide earlier that year).She also presses Prince Andrew about Virginia Giuffre’s sex abuse allegations, which he denied (and in 2022, they settled her sex abuse lawsuit out of court).

In the real interview, Prince Andrew defended his choice to stay in a convicted sex offender’s home when he visited New York because he said that Epstein’s digs were, “A convenient place to stay.”The car-crash of an interview led to Prince Andrew getting fired from official royal duties by his mom, Queen Elizabeth II. “It was a devastating moment for both of them.

His reputation is in tatters,” a source told the Sun at the time, referring to the overwhelming backlash.Although “Scoop” includes many parts of the real interview verbatim, there are plenty of parts it omits.

Here are six key parts from the real Prince Andrew interview that “Scoop” omits. In the real interview, Prince Andrew downplayed his “Party Prince” reputation.“I never have really partied,” he said. “I was single for quite a long time in the early ’80s but then after I got married I was very happy and I’ve never really felt the need to go and party and certainly going to Jeffrey’s was not about partying, absolutely not.”In the movie, as played by Rufus Sewell, Prince Andrew also downplays his “Party Prince” moniker, but this entire quote does not appear in the dramatized version of the interview.