confesses it was daunting becoming in ‘s , a series following the infamous BBC interview with the Duke about his relationship with convicted sex offender . Sheen ( , , ) stars alongside Ruth Wilson ( , ), playing British journalist Emily Maitlis, after she and Andrew came together for one hour on a fateful night in 2019 to produce what is now mostly considered a huge stain on the monarchy’s already-blotted reputation. The Duke of York was probed on accusations he had sex with Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) at Epstein’s house when she was just 17 in the early 2000s.
The Welsh actor tells that portraying any real-life person is “daunting” in itself, but a member even more so when the research involves a lot of guesswork and relying on “the person who used to be a security guard.” “One of the big challenges with with playing Prince Andrew compared to a lot of the people I’ve played,” he begins, “is it’s a hall of mirrors with Prince Andrew. The royal family is so controlled with what gets out.
So you’ve got, on the one hand, very stage-managed photographs and interviews and personal appearances, and then you’ve got, gossip and rumor and, ‘The person who used to be security guard said...
’ And you don’t know what people’s agendas are.” Sheen explains that it gets particularly tricky portraying a royal because there’s “a mystery at the heart” of who Andrew is – and, crucially, “what he did or didn’t do.” “I mean, we can have st.