One of Hugh Grant’s potential roles in Scoop, a new film on Prince Andrew’s catastrophic BBC interview regarding royal links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is said to be Hugh Grant. Grant is reportedly “on the shortlist” of actors being considered to play the disgraced prince in Peter Moffat’s next film, according to Deadline. The story of how BBC got an interview with Duke on Newsnight in 2019 about his acquaintance with the convicted sex offender will be told in the film.
According to Virginia Giuffre’s accusations, Duke had sex with her when she was just 17 years old. According to him, it is impossible for him to have been “sweating heavily” on that night since he “cannot sweat.” Many people saw the interview with Emily Maitlis as both extraordinary for the show and unfortunate for Prince Andrew, who has subsequently withdrawn from public view since it was conducted.
From Sam McAlister’s book Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, a former Newsnight producer provides an inside look at how some of the broadcaster’s most famous interviews were produced.
Producer Hilary Salmon, who founded The Lighthouse Film & TV production firm with Radford Neville and Nick Betts two years ago, immediately optioned the novel once it was revealed. Both The Lighthouse Film & TV and British independent Voltage TV have commissioned Moffat to pen the script. Salmon and Moffat have previously worked together on Undercover, Silk, Criminal Justice, and AMC’s 61st Street, starring Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, and Tosin Cole, which just finished its second season. ‘Silk’ Grant’s most recent roles were Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal Party leader accused of hiring a hitman to kill his ex-boyfriend, in the British comedy-drama A Very English Scandal and a rich doctor accused of murdering his young girlfriend in HBO’s The Undoing.
In Paddington 2, he portrays the delusional actor turned villain Phoenix Buchanan, and in The Gentlemen, he plays the evil private investigator Fletcher. An outspoken opponent of Murdoch’s press and the tabloids, the well-known actor is a frequent tweeter. Recently, he requested that those gathering outside Downing Street demand Boris Johnson’s resignation as Prime Minister play The Benny Hill Show theme song. Oneworld Productions released Sam McAlister’s book Scoops today.