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Michael Sheen has admitted he checked out “actually scorching” photos of Prince Andrew to play the disgraced royal in his new forthcoming Prime Video drama.
Sheen, 55, stars in A Very Royal Scandal, a three-part collection about Andrew’s car-crash Newsnight interview with BBC presenter Emily Maitlis, performed by Ruth Wilson.
Throughout the now notorious 2019 broadcast, Matilisgrilled the royal on his connection to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship with Virginia Guiffre – considered one of Epstein’s victims, who accused Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was 17.
The interview acquired backlash from viewers and days later, it was introduced he could be stepping again from royal duties. Andrew vehemently denied the allegations, ultimately reaching an out-of-court, multi-million pound settlement with Guiffre.
“At any time when I’ve performed a personality based mostly on an actual life particular person, in the beginning, I’m searching for the place’s the purpose of connection? What’s the factor that hooks me in?” Sheen instructed a London screening of the present.
“It was the footage of Andrew, when he got here again from the Falklands on the dockside with the rose in his mouth – that’s about pretty much as good a second as you’re ever going to get.”
The Good Omens star defined that the photographs impressed him to get into character, including “You’re the courageous, conquering, hero returning. You’re actually match! Actually scorching! And everybody thinks you’re nice. And it was form of downhill from there wasn’t it. That journey was my hook in.”
Earlier this yr Keeley Hawes, who performs Andrew’s secretary Amanda Thirsk in rival film Scoop, stated that males like Andrew had been as soon as thought of “horny and heroic”.
Discussing how attitudes have modified for the reason that Nineteen Eighties, she stated: “It’s simple to overlook – and I used to be rising up throughout that interval – however we celebrated these males.”
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“Invoice Wyman and his teenage bride, Randy Andy in his navy go well with. They had been horny – it sounds disgusting now to say it, nevertheless it was heroic.”
In an interview with The Sunday Instances, Sheen stated he was making an attempt to “convey humanity” to the character.
“Inevitably you convey humanity to a personality – that’s actually what I attempt to do. I don’t need individuals to say, ‘It was Sheen who bought all people behind Andrew once more.’ However I additionally don’t need to do a hatchet job.”
