Scoop review: Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview is immaculately recreated – but questions remain

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scoop, Netflix’s dramatisation of Newsnight’s infamous 2019 sit-down with Prince Andrew, positions the interview as one of the most crucial journalistic works of recent history. It’s all immaculately recreated – the royal’s oblivious defence of past associations with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, his claim to it being “almost impossible” for him to sweat, his repeated references to a “Pizza Express in Woking”. Epstein’s victims exist merely as a collection of terror-struck faces caught on camera by New York pap Jae Donnelly, who famously photographed Andrew and Epstein walking together in Central Park in 2010. Uncanny: Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell as Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew in ‘Scoop' Scoop ends with a semi-farcical scene of McAlister in Piccadilly Circus, as she watches every person there lift up their phones, dumbstruck, to film the Newsnight interview splashed out across the digital billboards.