Ruth Wilson spent time with the presenter-turned-podcaster to prepare for donning her military-style jacket. It shows. If the brown contact lenses and voluminous blonde wig weren't enough, she's also got a convincing hold of Maitlis's commanding voice.

Before the premier of Amazon Prime's A Very Royal Scandal, Ruth Wilson talks to Tatler about stepping into Emily Maitlis's

The Prime Video series dramatises the 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew when he was faced with allegations of sex trafficking with Jeffrey Epstein.

Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for A Very Royal Scandal.] Over three episodes, Prime Video, in A Very Royal Scandal, tells a dramatization of journalist Emily Maitlis’ (Ruth Wilson) 2019 interview with Prince Andrew (Michael Sheen) regarding his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of his own misconduct.

This ponderous Amazon three-parter with Michael Sheen as the boorish royal and Ruth Wilson adopting a bizarre drawl as his journalistic nemesis, arrives mere months after Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson played the roles in Netflix’s film Scoop.