Emily Maitlis says she will "run a million miles away" when Netflix releases film about Prince Andrew interview
Famous journalist Emily Maitlis, who interviewed Prince Andrew in November 2019, has said she will "run a million miles away" when the Netflix film adaptation of her Newsnight interview with the Duke of York is released.
Maitlis, who grilled King Charles III's younger brother Andrew over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, completely handed-off over Netflix film about the Duke's famous chat.
S*x Education star Gillian Anderson will play as Maitlis in the
dramatic retelling of the explosive interview. While, The Man In The High
Castle actor Rufus Sewell will be portraying Andrew.
Arriving on
the red carpet at the Bafta TV awards, Maitlis told a media outlet it was
"highly exciting and very weird" that the interview was being dramatised.
"I’ve
been completely hands-off actually and I think it’s better that way because
if I was the actress, I’d slightly want to have my own space to interpret it
as I saw fit. I know that there must be a difficulty with playing real,
living people and so I’ve just sort of stepped back from it and said, ‘This
is the Netflix film of that, it’s not my life and it’s not me. It’s whatever
Gillian does with it," she added.
The Tv presenter went on saying: "And I think Gillian is just a
fantastic actress and I think she’s amazing, so I’m very happy to be
completely hands-off and just allow her space to do something fabulous."
Asked
if she would watch the film as soon as it was released, she replied: “No, I
think I will run a million miles away."
To a question about her
feeling regarding the interview, she replied: "I feel incredibly grateful
that it all came together in the way it did for that interview. And if it
follows me, you know, there are worse things to live with."
Following the Newsnight broadcast in November 2019 and the
furore over Andrew’s friendship with Epstein, the duke stepped down from
public life.
