Gillian Anderson Takes on Role of Emily Maitlis in Netflix's Scoop

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Gillian Anderson Takes on Role of Emily Maitlis in Netflix's Scoop
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Gillian Anderson challenges herself by playing journalist Emily Maitlis in Netflix's Scoop, a film about the 2019 BBC interview with Prince Andrew. Anderson discusses her approach to the role and the powerful women involved in the interview.

The decision to do had so much more to do with would I have the balls to play Emily Maitlis ?' If there's one thing that's true about Gillian Anderson , it's that she isn't afraid of a challenge. And that's exactly what she's doing in her new film, tackling the role of journalist Emily Maitlis in Netflix 's Scoop (April 5), which documents the team behind the bombshell 2019 BBC interview with Prince Andrew over his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein .

For Anderson, who won an Emmy for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, she didn't see it as another project about the royal family. 'It wasn't until afterwards when people started asking me that and I was like, 'Really? Well, I didn't even think about it.' What stood out to Anderson was the various portrayals of women involved in making the interview happen. 'They are all incredibly powerful forces in their own rights, but also completely unique and different character

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