Prince Andrew character cracks sick Jimmy Savile joke in new Netflix drama ... trends now
Prince Andrew is portrayed cracking a sick joke about Jimmy Savile in the new Netflix film Scoop - which recounts the backstory to his infamous 2019 interview with Newsnight.
The movie, starring Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis and Rupert Sewell as the beleaguered prince, recreates the lead-up to the BBC's exclusive talk with Andrew about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
In the drama, written by Peter Moffat, the Duke of York tells the Newsnight team: 'I don't quite understand why everyone is so obsessed with my friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. I knew Jimmy Savile so much better.'
He then laughs at his joke.
Although Savile had a friendship with Andrew's brother, the then Prince Charles — and boasted about it — it's not clear whether he knew Prince Andrew at all or whether the prince made such a joke.
Prince Andrew (played by Rufus Sewell) is portrayed cracking a sick joke about Jimmy Savile in the new Netflix film Scoop - which recounts the backstory to his infamous 2019 interview with Newsnight
Gillian Anderson has been hailed as 'astonishing' in her upcoming role as Emily Maitlis after transforming into the Newsnight host
Savile died in 2011, and only after his death was he unmasked as a prolific paedophile.
Scoop streams on Netflix from next Friday. Billie Piper stars as BBC producer Sam McAlister, who set up the interview, and Keeley Hawes as Amanda Thirsk, the prince's head of press.
In another scene from the movie, Prince Andrew appears taken aback when Maitlis arrives at the palace wearing trousers, rather than a dress or a skirt, ahead of the interview.
Other scenes show him yelling at a female employee for incorrectly arranging teddy bears and a toy kangaroo on his bed.
Most shockingly, an eye-popping scene shows the prince stepping out of the bath fully naked, with Sewell wearing prosthetics.
Within four days of the interview's broadcast in 2019, the prince announced that he had
