Scoop: Gillian Anderson on Filming Modern Royal Drama After The Crown (Exclusive)

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family seems to stay in the headlines and it's unfortunate now, while why they are in the headlines with Kate and this cancer diagnosis and the same with the King, but they still continue to make world news right now, it's a moment in time. the one you know I understand that they have asked for some peace and quiet around what they are experiencing and it seems like that is the least we can do. It's a complicated relationship that the

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family has with the prince because. They court it as much as they probably fear it, but I think in this case, with this latest double whammy of news, the least people can do, I think, is give them a little break and let the headlines die down. below and so that you know how to process this like the human beings that you really are.

What hurts the most is that we've come this far, there should be more of the

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series oh no, I think it probably ended right in. I was in the right place, it was getting too close to the present. um, it was a lot easier when it was more in the past, I think, and people didn't necessarily have a direct relationship with the people on the screen, let's make no mistake if we do. If you don't get the tone right, the story won't be him, it'll be us, you, Your Royal Highness from the beginning, Rufus, you talked about watching this interview over and over again and the more you watch this interview, the more disbelieving you are. of what you're seeing, what it was like when you transformed into Prince Andrew, but you also discovered a way to mimic what was going on in his mind, something I still don't know to this day and I had a pretty similar experience. reaction, I think for most people and you know, as a human being, I made my judgments, etc., when I was studying it, it's quite different because it was different because it was about trying to overcome the judgment and trying to solve the why, why, not just why.

Does he say the things he says? Why does he say them the way he says them? When he pauses. When he knows. What is he trying to accomplish? What do you think is the effect he desires? How does he know? and all that stuff and get obsessed. as Jillian did in her own way in every little moment that other people might not consider significant and pinpoint their own reasons why they did it. Hi everyone, it's very fascinating because you know we all have our own relationship with our guilt. or our innocence in various matters, you know, and this is someone who feels like a victim of circumstances as much as he might feel guilty and you can see that in the interview and it's fascinating the story that he tells himself.

As much as the story is trying to tell us, I agree, it is fascinating to watch your eyes, how your eyes show confusion, if I do an interview, the question is why do you, with respect, know how people see, explain it Randy Andy, with respect, julan. I want to ask you if you feel like you're hanging around the royal family like you're in that universe telling stories about the royal family. um constantly, this is the only one, it's only the second one that I've done and a lot of that. You know the first story I was involved in telling was as much about me being a politician as it was about the relationship between the prime minister and the

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, so it was less about being within the royal family. and this feels like you know even though the end result is a member of the royal family um and you certainly know that Andrew being part of the royal family has a lot to do with how he ultimately responded.

It's about these women, you know, led by Sam McAllister, who work at the BBC and at Newsight, and how they captured this interview, so it feels like it's there, but it doesn't feel like it's the story or what. uh you know he could have been uh he could have been a head of state or a world leader of some kind that we were trying to hold accountable. Ru I just want to ask you about the transformation, when did you do it? I know you could pull it off and have the look. I don't know about the appearance, but when I read it and my instinct was that I could do it and then I said yes and then my instinct was completely gone, I mean, or rather.

My courage failed me for a while, but I think there's nothing wrong with that, you have to immerse yourself in it and when I started working, I started working from a place of oh my God, I'm not even close to this, um, and a Sometimes I'm not. I work that way and sometimes it seems like it's there from the beginning and I had to invent a process because I'm not someone who has played, I played some people who lived, but not anyone who people were very familiar with, so I had to overcome fear and because he's a royal because he's someone who was alive, similar to what Jillian experienced, there were all these things that you have to get out of your head, but um, the transformation is that I even worked, I even changed. the way I looked when I was working just so I could believe in myself, I could believe in my own silhouette, so when I came to do my makeup, which was extraordinary, tomorrow night in an unprecedented interview, we will hear from the Duke himself .

I know I thought it all went really well Sam Mallister really is a force of nature, what was it like being around her and talking to everyone involved? Jillian Sam, don't you know? You don't necessarily know it in the public eye as much as we do. We were able to watch endless amounts of videos and study, I think Sam had sent Billy a video of her walking, sitting and doing various things, I think that was particularly helpful, so I understand they spent quite a bit of time together. I sat down with her once and she was incredibly generous with her time and it was good to talk to her.

It was interesting for me to talk to other people who knew Emily, my character, who didn't, who didn't necessarily. having that perspective to see the other side of things so that it wasn't like that. I didn't want to make sure I had a complete picture of who Emily was and that was very meaningful to me. She was very encouraging. It was really good to have her around and have her at the reading and you know, I spent a little bit of time with her and she's really funny and she's really strong, you know, very similarly, it's really helpful to be able to get feedback on who you're playing that they don't agree with. okay you know because somewhere the truth is and we want you to know listen to PE Sam talking about meeting Andrew and how she said you know he made that joke inappropriate. joke and blah BL, but the overall impression was that you liked it, you know?

I had also heard the opposite from people you know, but hearing from a lot of them that would really defend him and it's very helpful to hear a lot of things. of complex and different ideas because it gives you freedom to use your imagination, you are not trying to follow a person's description