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Actor Rufus Sewell speaks about playing the Duke of York in the Newsnight interview in November 2019 about his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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00:00from the moment of yes to Emily conducting one of the most important interviews that BBC has ever done
00:06or has ever happened in this
00:08Well it's, you know, it's this question of sympathy versus empathy
00:13you know, and empathy is very interesting
00:17like the way a camera works is a grey scale
00:19it looks at either a bright scene or a black scene and it sees grey
00:22and that's a good way of getting all the detail
00:25you know, and you try to do that like to be able to really try to see something from someone's
00:32perspective
00:32what they would be thinking, what the truth they're telling themselves about their moment
00:37their reasons for being the way they are
00:38so that you can represent them fully
00:41not make them look good, not make them look bad
00:43but just try to be truthful
00:44and it's very tempting sometimes to slant it one way or another
00:47because you can be criticised for going too far in either direction
00:50especially playing someone like this
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