A film will go behind the scenes of Prince Andrew’s disastrous BBC interview

Netflix continues to exploit the vein of the royal family. After The crown and the documentary on Harry and Meghan, the platform will produce a film titled Ladle, at the bottom of Prince Andrew’s interview with the BBC in 2019, according to Skynews. Then implicated in the Epstein affair, the son of Queen Elizabeth II had tried to rehabilitate his image. This interview, by contrast, turned out to be disastrous, the prince clumsily dodging the accusations against him.

Actress Billie Piper will play Sam McAlister, the journalist who managed to get the prince’s interview, alongside Gillian Anderson as journalist Emily Maitlis, who conducted the interview. Actor Rufus Sewell will play Prince Andrew.

“A film about power and privilege”

The production was in charge of Philip Martin, who directed several episodes of The crown.

“It’s a movie about power, privilege and different perspectives, and how, whether in gleaming palaces or high-tech newsrooms, we judge what’s true,” he said.

Supposedly to restore the image of Andrew, involved in the Epstein case, this interview had produced the opposite effect, since the prince had been insensitive and disconnected.

“He did not seem aware of the seriousness of the matter, laughing and smiling several times during the interview (…) and expressing no regret or concern for Epstein’s victims,” ​​the writer had written in this way. guardian the day after its release.

As a result of this interview, the prince had to withdraw from public life and social networks. The queen had also stripped him of his military titles, to try to stop the scandal.

financial agreement

In February 2022, the prince escaped trial by reaching a financial settlement with Virginia Giuffre, the American who accused him of sexual assault in 2001, and who wanted to see him tried in a civil trial in New York.

The 61-year-old son of Queen Elizabeth II was the subject of a complaint from this 38-year-old woman, a former victim of American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who accused her of sexual violence when she was 17 years old.