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Netflix's new drama Scoop reportedly features a shocking scene where Prince Andrew jokes about his 'friend' Jimmy Savile.

The movie - which releases April 5 - recreates the disgraced Royal's car crash  Newsnight interview about his association with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

According to The Sun Prince Andrew (played by Rufus Sewell) jokes: 'I don't know why you're so obsessed with me and Epstein.

'I was much better friends with Jimmy Savile.'

For decades Savile secretly prayed on hundreds of people of both sexes, many of them children, while also being a valued friend to the likes of King Charles, the then Prince of Wales, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The publication reports that the film, which stars Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis and Bille Piper as Newsnight producer Sam McAlister, portrays the Duke of York as a 'bumbling, deluded fool'.

Not only does he tell his staff off for not arranging his teddy bear collection correctly in another scene he emerges from the bath totally nude. 

It comes after actor Rufus admitted he initially regretted accepting the role because it was out of his comfort zone.

The actor, 56, said he thought he could 'get behind' the part, but panicked when he was offered it and confessed he thought 'what have I done?'

Rufus opened up while appearing on Good Morning Britain, where he detailed 'obsessively watching the Newsnight interview for hours'.

Speaking on his thoughts after getting the role, hesaid: 'I felt I could get behind it then afterwards, when I got the part, I was like "gosh what I have done?" I'm not a natural mimic.' 

'I obsessively watched the interview. I watched it at the time like everyone else, I was kind of transfixed for various reasons. Like most people I had my own judgements.

'But doing it is a different thing and trying to put yourself in the position of someone like that and working out

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