Actor Michael Sheen appeared uncanny as Prince Andrew as he recreated the notorious New York stroll with paedophile fanancier Jeffrey Epstein for a brand new ITV drama.
The first images revealed from the set of A Very Royal Scandal present Hollywood star Sheen because the disgraced royal and John Hopkins as late billionaire Epstein.
The scene, filmed in Battersea, South West London, seems nearly an identical to the actual life occasion, which noticed Andrew go to Epstein in New York shortly after he was launched from jail for youngster intercourse offences in 2011.
The recreation even has Sheen mimicking the precise hand actions of the royal, impressed by images captured on the time.
‘Michael is a rare actor and has introduced again to life the extraordinary second the senior royal went walkabout with a convicted paedo,’ a supply informed The Sun.
Michael Sheen (left) as Prince Andrew and John Hopkins (proper) as Jeffrey Epstein within the new ITV drama A Very Royal Scandal
The scene seems nearly an identical to the actual life occasion (pictured), which noticed Prince Andrew (left) go to Jeffrey Epstein (proper) in New York shortly after he was launched from jail for youngster intercourse offences in 2011
‘Michael even captures the Prince’s hand actions.’
The park scene was recreated for the Amazon three-part sequence which can revolve across the Prince’s Newsnight Interview with Emily Maitlis in November 2019.
The new drama may even deal with Andrew’s friendship with Epstein and claims that he had intercourse with Virginia Giuffre when she was 17.
A supply mentioned: ‘In the drama Andrew thinks he is above the whole lot and nothing can contact him. But it clearly finally ends up as a automotive crash.’
Sheen is famend for his convincing portrayals of actual folks – having beforehand performed former Prime Minister Tony Blair and soccer supervisor Brian Clough.
Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre) and Ghislaine Maxwell are pictured in 2001 at Maxwell’s London townhouse
Prince Andrew put his hand on Johanna Sjoberg’s breast whereas a puppet that appeared like him groped Virginia Giuffre, surprising court docket papers claimed. Pictured: Prince Andrew’s depiction on Spitting Image
Emily Maitlis, the journalist who grilled Andrew over his relationship with Epstein, will likely be performed by Ruth Wilson.
The studio defined it should monitor Maitlis’s ‘skilled and private journey as a Newsnight journalist main as much as her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew’.
Files from a defamation case by Miss Giuffre in opposition to Ghislaine Maxwell, who was imprisoned for trafficking younger women for paedophile Epstein, have been launched and embrace severe accusations in opposition to VIPs together with Prince Andrew. The royal has denied all of the claims.
In one bombshell declare, Miss Giuffre mentioned Epstein paid her $15,000 to have intercourse with Prince Andrew in 2001.
Shocking court docket papers additionally claimed Prince Andrew put his hand on Johanna Sjoberg’s breast whereas a puppet that appeared like him groped Miss Giuffre.
Prince Andrew has all the time denied all accusations of sexual exercise with Epstein’s accusers, and denied any wrongdoing.