Michael Sheen - who plays Prince Andrew in a new drama about his BBC interview in 2019 - says that he has a private view about whether the Royal did or did not sleep with Virginia Roberts.
Actor Michael Sheen – who plays Prince Andrew in a new drama about his disastrous 2019 News night interview with Emily Maitlis – says that he has a private view about whether the Royal did or did not sleep with teenager Virginia Roberts.
It hints that Prince Andrew might have slept with Roberts - now known as Virginia Giuffre - but thought it unimportant and forgotten about it. He is told that the newspaper will be repeating her claims that they slept together and says to an aide: 'How on earth is a bloke supposed to remember all the women he's bedded?'
Sheen said last night that the programme preserves ambiguity around the question of whether anything physical happened between the prince and Miss Roberts, who was 17 in 2001 and said that she was trafficked for sex with the Prince by Epstein.Sheen said: 'The challenge with the piece is that there is a mystery at the heart of it. We don't definitively know what happened.
'We would do certain key moments in certain scenes where I would do one take that leans into this a little bit and then do another take that leans into that a little bit …and find how far you can go before it leans into being a different story.'In Scoop, Gillian Anderson played Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis and Billie Piper played fixer Sam McAlister, who has taken credit for landing the interview.
Sheen said: 'It might surprise you to know that to prepare I lived with Andrew at Buckingham Palace for six months… No. Funny enough I didn't get much cooperation.
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