Netflix’s Scoop recounts a latest slice of British historical past that many know properly: Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in 2019—the one by which the Duke of York, going through powerful questions on his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein, spoke about his incapacity to sweat, his fateful go to to Pizza Specific in Woking, and described his former pal’s conduct as, er, “unbecoming,” ultimately leading to him having to step again from his public duties. Besides, that is the story you don’t know: directed by The Crown’s Philip Martin and penned by Peter Moffat, it follows the ladies who fought to safe the worldwide unique and maintain the embattled royal to account.

Amongst them is, in fact, the quietly commanding Maitlis herself, who took a restrained however incisive strategy to the interrogation which left her topic completely uncovered, but additionally the booker who satisfied the prince and his non-public secretary to comply with the interview, in addition to the editor who oversaw proceedings and obtained sign-off from the bosses of the BBC earlier than this system aired. As for who performs them? A who’s who of British performing expertise, in fact, with an American thrown in for good measure.

Forward of the movie’s launch on April 5, we evaluate the formidable forged to their distinguished real-life counterparts.

Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis