Michael Sheen on Prince Andrew, Port Talbot and Keir Starmer
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Actor Michael Sheen joins us today to discuss his latest role playing a royal - Prince Andrew in Amazon's three part drama 'A Very Royal Scandal', based on the Newsnight interview Emily did with him in 2019.
He tells us what he privately decided about Prince Andrew's character before he accepted the part - and he tells us what he thinks of Keir Starmer's early days and what needs to needs to happen politically.
He also takes us back - metaphorically - to his home town Port Talbot - which has seen the docking of its final ship in the steel making business for which it was formerly famed.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | You didn't ask me about my alibis, as discussed. |
| 0:17.7 | The sweating and my visit to Pizza Express. |
| 0:22.3 | Sweating. |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.3 | I must insist that we include these details, |
| 0:29.2 | the material to his Royal Highness's defence. |
| 0:31.3 | We were expecting to be asked about them. |
| 0:33.1 | That was Michael Sheen, the actor, playing the Royal Prince Andrew, |
| 0:37.3 | in an Amazon Prime drama in three |
| 0:40.7 | parts that we will be seeing later this month. It is based on the Newsnight interview that I did |
| 0:47.2 | with Prince Andrew in 2019. And today we hear from Michael Sheen about the role, about how he approached the question of guilt or innocence, and so much more besides. |
| 0:59.6 | You didn't even give the title a very royal scandal. A very royal scandal. You need to learn from John Sopal about some promotion, Emily Maitland. |
| 1:07.1 | Self-publicity. Absolutely. We spoke to Michael Sheen about the challenges of playing |
| 1:11.7 | a royal, about politics and about the way that Keir-Starmer's government is already unfolding. |
| 1:17.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And just to, as we always say, give you a glimpse behind the curtain, there are of the two |
| 1:31.7 | other news agents in terms of promotion for other things we're doing. |
| 1:35.4 | I think it's fair to say there is a different tenor, a different feel to the room when |
| 1:39.7 | John Sopal and Emily Maitliss are around doing their respective things. |
| 1:43.3 | You may have noticed John |
| 1:44.3 | has got a book out. We've got to say that. It's part of our contract now, isn't it? John's got to book out, every single day. And there's a |
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