Rufus 'made uglier' to star as Andrew

Facial prosthetics transform hunks, handsome ooks

RUFUS Sewell is to play Prince Andrew in a drama based on the disgraced royal's car crash interview on Newsnight with Emily Maitlis.

But the 55-year-old heart-throb will use prosthetics to look less handsome... and better resemble the Duke, 62.

Gillian Anderson is to play Maitlis, who grilled Andrew in November 2019 over his relationship with late billionaire and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Called Scoop, the Netflix movie will look at navigating Palace vetoes, to breaking through to Prince Andrew's inner circle, the high-stakes negotiations and intensity of rehearsal, to the jaw-dropping interview itself”. Director Philip Martin, who also works on The Crown, said: Uptempo, immersive and cinematic, I want to put the audience inside the breathtaking sequence of events that led to the interview with Prince Andrew.