Gillian Anderson Shares Rufus Sewell’s Behind-the-Scenes Transformation Into Prince Andrew forScoop

Mar. 15, 2025

Gillian Anderson (left) and Rufus Sewell.Photo:Gillian Anderson/instagram

Gillian Anderson/instagram

Rufus Sewelldrastically transformed intoPrince AndrewforNetflix’sScoop.

Sewell, 56, portrays Prince Andrew, 64, in the movie on the royal’sbombshell 2019 interview with the BBCabout his ties to the deceased convicted sex offenderJeffrey Epstein.

On Friday, Gillian Anderson, who portraysEmily Maitlis, the BBC host who conducted the interview, shared behind-the-scenes photos of Sewell’s look coming together viaInstagram.

In the series of snaps, Anderson, 55, smiles and poses with prosthetic makeup underneath his chin and a product that appears to be an adhesive around his ears.

“Just a straightforward shooting week (and!)Scoopis out on Netflix today!” Anderson captioned the post.

In the comment section, fans applauded Sewell’s believable and realistic transformation.

“So pleased Rufus is having lots of prosthetics to look like Prince Andrew I thought in the trailer he had gone to seed 😂 so glad to see he is still gorgeous,” one social media user wrote.

“Genuinely could not believe this was the same guy!!” another added in part.

One fan simply wrote, “Rufus nailed it. Looks just like Andy! 🔥.”

Sewell, known for his roles inThe Illusionist, A Knight’s TaleandThe Man in the High Castle,and Anderson were announced as the leads for the film in February 2023.

“Very excited to get started!” Anderson, who won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for playing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher inThe Crown,tweetedfollowing the casting announcement:

Keeley Hawes portrays Amanda Thirsk, Prince Andrew’s private secretary at the time, while Billie Piper plays Sam McAlister, the producer who negotiated Prince Andrew’s booking. McAlister wrote the memoirScoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, on which the film is based.

McAlister, who left the BBC in 2021 and is now a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics,told PEOPLE in an exclusive interviewthat she hopesScoopreminds viewers of the importance of journalism’s role in democracy. She also hopes viewers root for her character as she accomplished what was a “journalistic jewel.”

“I was an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation, trying to feed my kid on the bus, getting kebabs, trying to do my best in the workplace, working part-time, fretting like most normal people do about all of life’s rich tapestry,” McAlister told PEOPLE. “And it ended up being the scoop of the century.”

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The film will follow “how the BBC’sNewsnightteam got the scoop, then the actual filming of it,” screenwriter Peter Moffat previously toldDeadline. “The other thing is, ‘Why did he agree to do it?'”

“How was it that he decided it was a good idea to do a great big long interview with Emily Maitlis on the BBC?” Moffat continued.

Scoopwill give viewers “the inside track on the women that broke through the Buckingham Palace establishment to secure the scoop of the decade that led to the catastrophic fall from grace of the queen’s ‘favorite son,'” according to the film’slogline. That includes everything from “navigating Palace vetoes, to breaking through to Prince Andrew’s inner circle, the high-stakes negotiations and intensity of rehearsal — to the jaw-dropping interview itself.”

source: people.com