00:00Prince Andrew's dramatic fall from grace is heading to Netflix.
00:05The streamer has acquired Scoop, a feature film based on the disgraced Royals bombshell interview with the BBC in 2019,
00:12and what became one of the most significant, notorious, and ridiculed interviews in recent years.
00:17The interview was even used against Andrew in the civil case filed by his sexual assault accuser, Virginia Roberts Jufri.
00:24The project will star Rufus Sewell as Andrew and Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis,
00:29the former lead presenter for BBC's flagship news show Newsnight, who interviewed the prince.
00:34The film, based on Sam McAllister's own memoir, Scoops, behind the scenes of the BBC's most shocking interviews,
00:40will tell the inside story of the woman that broke through the Buckingham Palace establishment to land the scoop of the decade.
00:47During the interview, which focused on Andrew's relationship with the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of sexual assault,
00:54he infamously claimed that he had remained friends with Epstein even after he had been released from prison because he was, quote,
01:00too honorable.
01:01And among other claims he disputed, said that he couldn't have been clubbing with Jufri one night because he was at a pizza express,
01:07and also refuted that he was sweating profusely on the night in question because of a peculiar medical condition that prevented him from sweating.
01:15In early 2022, Andrew settled the sexual assault case with Jufri out of court for a sum reported at the time as being $14.4 million.
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