Gillian Anderson Talks 'Scoop' and an Iconic Career
glamour.comScoop ( Friday, April 5), centers on Prince Andrew's first sit-down interview about his friendship with convicted sex offender, the late financier, (which later resulted in him stepping down from official royal duties), but the more profound story here is how it happened.That's where Anderson comes in.
She plays BBC Newsnight anchor and journalist, Emily Maitlis, who conducted the infamous 2019 interview after months of tenacious work by her producer, Sam McAlister (played by Billie Piper), to secure the booking.“I remember hearing about the interview, but I hadn't seen it right [away],” Anderson tells me over Zoom from her New York hotel room. “I remember it being a really big deal, particularly in the UK where I live.” And yet, Anderson (who was actually born in Chicago and spent her adolescence between the United States and the United Kingdom) don't really pay much attention to it.
She watched clips eventually, noting that it was “" she found it difficult to watch. “So studying it properly for the sake of re-creation [in Scoop]…it's kind of extraordinary,” she says.Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis in Scoop.Whether it was Prince Andrew or some other public figure in the hot seat, Anderson was only focused on one thing: getting it right, and doing right by Maitlis.
As such, Anderson remembers sitting across from Rufus Sewell (who plays the disgraced prince) at an early read-through, and saying, “Oh my God, what have we got ourselves into?" Looking back, she says that while she definitely felt prepared, “sometimes regardless of how prepared you are, nerves can be extreme.”But if anyone's going to take a role by the horns and give it their all, it's the 55-year-old mother-of-three, who's also a recipient of the.
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