#emily maitlis

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Celebrity Strip Club

Does what it says on the tin.

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i was unsure about channel 4’s decision to have boris johnson on their election night panel but it was worth it just to see emily maitlis skewer him (bonus)

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Told ya.

Prince Andrew WILL Move Out of Royal Lodge, Sources Say

The timing of an announcement is all that remains to be sorted, sources say.

It’s a matter of “when not if” Prince Andrew will vacate Royal Lodge, the grand 30-room mansion in Windsor that has for more than two decades been his residence, sources have told The Royalist. A former courtier who retains close links to the palace told The Royalist that an announcement could come as soon as today (Friday) saying: “He is moving. It’s just a matter of getting the choreography right now.” The sources spoke to The Royalist after royal reporters were sent into a tailspin yesterday after some journalists were told that an announcement about Andrew moving out of the controversial home was due, but never arrived.

Did people really think that the flurry of articles about Andrew that have happened over the last week--including an unredacted copy of his Royal Lodge lease--were an accident?

Everything was released as part of a coordinated campaign!

Three weeks until Charles's 77th birthday!

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Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson in A Very Royal Scandal (2024) Episode 2

Obstacles arise before Emily Maitlis' anticipated Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew. Once underway, the high-profile meeting takes unexpected turns for Maitlis and her team.

*In one scene, Prince Andrew complains that president Nixon's problem was that he used to sweat on TV appearances. Michael Sheen appeared on the stage play and film version of Frost/Nixon (2008), where his character (David Frost) interviews Richard Nixon in what later became one of the most infamous moments of television history.

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@rehza_rice on X (previously Twitter) Creation

Putting these together……. Genius! ✨

The voice, expressions, mannerisms. These two completely nailed it. Spot on!

Michael Sheen is so devastatingly accurate in his performances. Seeing this put together shows the detail both he and Ruth Wilson achieved.

A Very Royal Scandal

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[...]By November last year, we were ready to start filming. My house was full of costume designers trying to copy my wardrobe and a set designer, Noam Piper, gently asking if I would have a menorah or a Christmas tree at Christmas. (Both.) We dug out the jacket I had worn for the interview and I handed it over. The show’s costume designer, Natalie Ward, took jackets, handbags and coats, either to copy or borrow, and Wilson would then follow up with me via text: “Just checking, you’d never wear a dressing gown at breakfast, right?” (She’s right. Never.) Up to that point I had had no interaction with Michael Sheen, who was playing Andrew, but now I got to see him up close, at work, turning himself into a person about whom the whole world already had an opinion. I would be on set as the cameras were rolling. “I don’t impersonate,” he said. “I don’t even look like the characters that much, but, by the end of the drama, people tell me they’ve forgotten what the real one looks like.” I can already see it. He has gained weight for the role. His regal paunch somehow affects not just his gait but the whole turn of his head. More comes from the jowls. The neck. We meet at Horace Walpole’s house in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, now decked out to look like Royal Lodge, Andrew’s home in Windsor. They are filming a scene from the last act. Andrew’s lawyers are explaining to him, euphemistically at first, then bluntly, that he may get extradited to the US. I watch the realisation land on Andrew/Michael’s face maybe 15 times as they shoot it from different angles and with different emphasis. It is utterly mesmerising. I could watch it 15 times more. Between scenes, as they’re dressing the set, Sheen wanders over to find me. He has questions about the interview. Or the meaning behind a glance I have now forgotten. Or just a joke to tell me. My head cannot compute the ease with which he slips in and out of character when I have been so paralysed seconds earlier by his portrayal. [...]

The Times Magazine, interview with Emily Maitlis about A Very Royal Scandal 24/08/2024

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Does anybody know where I can find a full recording of Gillian Anderson’s A Streetcar Named Desire ? Suddenly developed an obsession with the show (if you’re in the Toronto area GO SEE IT AT SOULPEPPER!!!!) after seeing a live production, and now I need to see Gillian Anderson as Blanche Dubois!

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