A Hollywood star has praised Michael Sheen’s ’empathetic’ portrayal of Prince Andrew in A Very Royal Scandal. Rachel Weisz, 54, admitted she ‘felt terribly’ for the disgraced royal, 64, after watching the Amazon Prime Video series. A Very Royal Scandal is the second dramatision of Prince Andrew’s disastrous BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis , played by Ruth Wilson.
While in conversation with Emily, 54, at Cliveden Literary Festival, about the TV drama adaptation, Rachel shared her feelings on Michael’s ‘imaginative’ take on Pince Andrew. She said according to the Daily Mail : ‘What I love so much about the series is the empathy with which Prince Andrew is played, and the pathos and humanity in this character, which is something that the writer and Michael Sheen had to invent. ‘That was an imaginative act.
[I was] watching the drama and feeling just so terrible, I felt terribly for Prince Andrew.’ To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video During the discussion, Emily, who acted as executive producer on A Very Royal Scandal, revealed that she approached Rachel for advice about the show. She said: ‘I was calling up Rachel and saying, “Help, this is your world, and I don’t know how to deal with this”.
’ ‘I went to Rachel, first of all, and said, “What should I be doing? How much of myself should I give? Should I open up my freezer and let them see the vodka?” Rachel,.