Yahoo Movies Rufus Sewell had a Prince Andrew bum 'specially shipped in' for Scoop role
"It's not that I'm ashamed of my own," promised the actor.
Rufus Sewell has revealed that he needed a fake bum "specially shipped in" to portray Prince Andrew in Netflix's Scoop.
Opening up on his royal transformation - Andrew is the Duke of York and younger brother of King Charles III - which largely composed of layered prosthetic skin to achieve the bulkier frame of the real-life subject, the Dark City actor told RadioTimes that he'd have no problem in getting his own bottom out for the cameras, but it wouldn't have looked right.
"It's not that I'm ashamed of my own. I get it out whenever I get the chance — but this bum was specially shipped in," said Sewell.
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Further along, he also recalled replicating the "Windsor clenched jaw" of Andrew's, which served him particularly well for the interview scenes opposite Gillian Anderson's Emily Maitlis.
"Andrew actually has this blokey quality. If you listen to him, as opposed to King Charles, he has a lad's lad quality. He's Randy Andy who chats up the working girls when he visits the factory."
This comes after Scoop producer Sanjay Singhal explained to the same publication why the time is right to make the film - five years on from Andrew's car crash Newsnight appearance.
"I think there's such a big appetite for factually based dramas now, factual based stories. There's so many of them, you look at Mr Bates vs The Post Office and many, many others that are connecting with audiences," he shared.
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"And I think probably the feeling is, as that appetite grows, why not try and tell those stories more quickly? Because sometimes if they're great stories, they can still connect with you at the moment and I think that appetite is driving a need to tell those stories probably faster than we used to do before."
Scoop is available to stream on Netflix.
Watch: How Prince Andrew Scoop 'sweat' scene compares to real Newsnight interview
